Little Ones Lost

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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Legacy Never Ceases to Amaze and Please

I often talk about my love of Legacy Family Tree. I’ve been a beta tester for products from Legacy and their parent company, Millennia for many years and know how input from users of Legacy has shaped the products we see today. Ken McGinnis, Dave Berdan, Geoff Rasmussen and crew [...]

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The Demise of a Great Photo

We all know that we should keep our photos in acid-free storage pages, standing upright in cool dark places, but how many of us do it? I’m sorry to say that not all of the photos in our home are stored this way. I didn’t expect to be bitten by the ravages [...]

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Digital storage media

If you haven’t experienced failures in your storage CD’s or DVD’s yet, you will. It is just a matter of time. I’ve seen more than a dozen of my genealogy backup CD’s fail during the past 18 months.
So, what did I do wrong? I burned the data to [...]

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