Tonight I worked on another Winter Games Challenge: Participate in an indexing project. I’ve been working on my own indexing project for the last 2-3 years. I’ve been extracting Portuguese names from ship lists for ships from Hawaii to California. This involved extracting the name and putting them into spreadsheets for each ship. This took…
Tag: Winter 2010 GeneaBlogger Games
My Shelf is Attacking Me
One of the Winter Games challenges is to organize and file at least 20 hard files in their binders. After my experience tonight, I am fairly sure why I’m so far behind on filing. It’s too dang dangerous! I pulled out the first stack of papers and proceeded to knock my glidepoint, the wrist guard,…
Winter Games Progress Report #2
This is my Friday Winter Games progress report. I’ve been able to accomplish quite a bit this week. Here’s my progress category by category: Category 1–haven’t done diddly so far Medal earned–None Category 2–I’ve backed up all my data (including databases, files, and photographs) to my flash drive. Medal earned–Gold Category 3–I haven’t worked on…
Winter Games Progress
I got quite a bit done today. I’m working on challenge #6, Reach Out and Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindess. I completed Task A–comment on a new blog to me. I left a comment at “My Big Fat Cajun Irish Scottish English German French Southern Family” blog. And, I thought I had a lot of…
Added a Cemetery to FindaGrave.com
Today I worked on Challenge 6 of the Winter Genea Blogger games: Reach Out and Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness. I worked on Task B–Post one or more gravestone photos at Find A Grave. I have been meaning to work on Find A Grave since the beginning of the year as a Pay it Forward….