Randy’s Saturday Night Challenge for this week is to create a timeline. I love playing with timelines! This is going to be fun. I chose my great great grandmother, Ana Jacinta de Mello, for this challenge. I’m using RootsMagic 5 to create my timeline. This is her timeline using the timeline feature (click on image…
We are not all related
I hate to break the news, but genealogically speaking we are not all related. Oh, sure, depending on what you believe we have Adam and Eve or Lucy in our past. But, when it comes to genealogy research connecting us all is impossible. Even connecting everyone in the same town of village would be hard…
SNGF: This Week’s Genealogy Highlights
Randy Seaver has his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge on his blog. This week we’re to write about our genealogy highlight. I have a three highlights that I want to share. 1. I made my first connection on WikiTree. A researcher contacted me about my Shellabarger line. This researcher has the line going back…
Do you Tagxedo?
Another genealogist shared this word cloud utility with me. It’s called Tagxedo. You enter a bunch of words, pick a shape, and it makes a cool looking word cloud graphic. I did a couple using surnames from my family tree. I really like the way they came out. This is my surname tree… I really…
How to Secure Your WordPress Blog
As you all know, the Research Journal was hacked last week. I’ve spend several days cleaning up the mess the idiot left behind. Thank goodness my webhost figured it out because I probably never would have until it was too late. The email my webhost sent me said that once I deleted the malicious files,…