Posted in technology on Sep 3rd, 2008
A big Thank You! to Bruce from RootsMagic for his input on my post Finally!. Bruce saw what I had written about my concerns about exporting images from RootsMagic for import into my TNG database and clarified that process for me.
Posted in projects, technology on Sep 2nd, 2008
This morning I created 2 more pages of Mom’s Red Photo Album, after not touching it for about 3 weeks. Last night I posted the album itself, to see if I could. (With my WordPress.com blog, I couldn’t post it!). Glad to get back into that task.
I also learned how to add images to my [...]
Posted in technology, web design on Aug 30th, 2008
In the past week I have been extremely busy! I made the move to self-hosting, and then had to download to my computer the WordPress.org version and then upload and install in on my hosted site, and then export/import my blog into it. A real hair-puller-outer, let me tell ya! (Need help? Read WordPress for [...]
Posted in technology on Aug 27th, 2008
I spent most of yesterday tweeking the new self-hosted Bluebonnet Country Genealogy. One problem remained that I had to contact my hosting company over, but I got a message back from them this evening, and it was quickly remedied.
When I got home from work this evening, my daughter and granddaughter were close on my heals, [...]
Posted in back-up, organization, technology on Aug 19th, 2008
For the past few days, I have been working on my Genea-Bloggers Group Games events. I have added descriptions and tags to 43 images that I have saved in the database of my great-great grandfather, Miles Francis Stanley I.
Part of that time was spent trying to figure out the best way to describe/tag/upload using the [...]
Posted in technology on Aug 13th, 2008
Or so it seems…
I’ve been a little side-tracked the past few days and haven’t done much of anything genealogy…at least not conventional genealogy .
My family has had a bit of a medical emergency that took some help to resolve. My granddaughter’s cat Raven got sick to the point that we feared that she would [...]
Posted in technology on Aug 11th, 2008
Ever since I moved up to DSL from Dinosaur Dial-Up a few months ago, my granddaughter (and occasionally my daughter) comes to my house to use my computer. My laptop is faster than her desktop, plus with the DSL, YouTube is now a favorite site. Which is all fine and dandy, except when I want [...]
Posted in groups, technology on Jul 28th, 2008
Thomas MacEntee from our Facebook group GeneaBloggers and Destination: Austin Family has very graciously taken time away from all of his many activities and obligations to help me save an online video of my uncle Ladd Clark. Without his invaluable assistance, I doubt I would have this video safely tucked away on my hard drive!
Uncle [...]
Posted in blogs, just for fun, technology on Jul 25th, 2008
Shades of the Departed has a really neat Friday From The Collectors post today! Chart Chick Janet Hovorka of Generations Maps has presented some examples of the type of genealogy charts that Generations Maps can produce, and they are awesome! These are not the usual descendent or pedigree looks. Janet has incorporated old family photos [...]
Posted in technology on Jul 20th, 2008
We as genealogists often run across old photos or books that we may want to use on our websites or in our own writings. But where do we stand legally by using these images or texts? Are they public domain or are they protected by copyright?
I recently discovered a very useful website called Life Hacker: [...]
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