A Shovel On His Shoulder

I was out on the front lawn playing with my dog when I heard someone whistling.  Looking up, I saw my great uncle Si Bennett walking down the road toward our house with a shovel over his shoulder.
He wore his old sweat stained Stetson hat, bib overalls and work boots.  I don’t think he stood [...]

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3.5 Terabytes

Not that long ago, or so it seems, I built a computer with 8k of RAM memory.  Coupled with a little cassette player, I had all the data storage in the world.  I wrote my own little genealogy program in basic and my research life was great.
Skip forward ‘a while’.
After an all night session of [...]

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Research Tools – Didn’t You Know?

“How’d you do that?”
I probably hear that question ten times a week and am a little surprised that folks don’t already use the same tools themselves.
You may not be using these tools in your own ancestral research, documentation and presentations but you should give them a try.  I think you’ll like them.

Irfanview.  Other than Legacy, [...]

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Keeping a Diary and Other Records

Since you are interested in family history, you need to be sure to keep your own living history on a regular, hopefully daily, basis.
The sad news we see today of bank failures, stock market plunges and countries falling into bankruptcy bring back memories of a very bad time in the world in the late 1920’s [...]

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