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Archive for February, 2009

The Slow Death of Handwriting

Posted in Family Histories, Genealogy, Handwriting, Lineage Keeper, Signatures, tagged , , , , on 26 February 2009 | 1 Comment »

After spending several nights trying to interpret the handwriting on old census records, I realized that I haven’t written anything extensive on paper for a long time.  
How does my handwriting now compare to what it did when I was young?   Well, it depends on the day.  Some days, my current hand strokes produce very [...]

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Destroy That Drive

Posted in Data Deletion, Data Theft, tagged , on 17 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A fellow recently demonstrated his ability to recover data from a hard drive whose data had been overwritten a seven times using a data shredder program set to a supposed DOD data destruction standard.
If you have ever had any experience with identity theft, you understand why the hackles on the back of my neck [...]

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Recording Life

Posted in Family Stories, Life Histories, Personal Historian, Recording Memories, tagged , , , on 10 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »

How do you record your life?  Do you write in a journal daily?  Do you use software to record your history in regular sit-down sessions?  If so, do you print it out so it isn’t lost when your hard drive fails?
How are you recording the histories of your ancestors?  If so, you probably use a [...]

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Little Ones Lost

Posted in Alpine Utah, Bennett, Cemeteries, Dick Eastman, Grave, tagged , , , , on 6 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’d heard stories about my great grandparents, Robert and Rosa Logie Bennett homesteading a farm since I was very young and often wondered about them.  Of the ten children in the Bennett family, three babies died either at birth or before they were three.  All three were buried on the family farm in there in [...]

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