Gene Notes

Some random and some not-so-random thoughts on family history.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Holy Cow! Jump Starting the Old Genealogy MoJo!

I attended two webinars sponsored by Legacy Family Tree this week. The one I attended yesterday was Research Recharge by Lisa Alzo. Just what I needed to get my genealogy Mojo going.

One of the things that is helping with that is the Research Guidance function in Legacy Family Tree. I love it and I hate it. I hate it, because it is giving me a lot of stuff to look at for my Nathaniel Davidson brick wall. I love it for the same reason. Eight pages is kind of crazy though!

I even cleared one small portion of my desk! This actually involved shifting paper from one side to the next. I'm afraid to file anything without being sure that it was entered in my records, and it has been such a long time since I did anything with anything.

Or so I thought. Since March, I have added 31 people to my database. Deleted 8 to-do list items and added 34 items to that list. Eek!

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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Oh Man!

Recently, I received an email from Canon about my mobile printer not being compatible with Windows 8. Sigh. This is my little travel printer that goes on trips with me to print out to-do lists, maps, cemetery section maps, etc. Canon nicely offered a customer loyalty discount, but I think I can do better probably at Staples or Amazon.

One of the nice things about my old ip70 was the cradle kit for it which turned it into a cordless printer. I love it. It still has to be attached to the computer via USB, but that isn't an issue.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Who Do You Think You Are? WHAT?

I am catching up on WDYTYA and I am puzzled why someone from UC Irvine is involved in records at the Missouri State Archives. Just one more reason Ancestry puzzles me.

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