Do you have binders full of research notes?  Can you remember what records you’ve already searched and what you’ve already found?  Do you have stacks of photocopies waiting to be organized and filed?  If so, there’s a product I saw at the BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy 2012 that I think you’ll like.  [...]

Do you want to create your own family tree website but don’t know how to write code?  I’ve got just the tool for you!  It’s called The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding or TNG. I’ve seen this product at other conferences, but more recently I attended Laura Prescotts’ RootsTech lecture, “Publish Your Genealogy Online.” Laura [...]

The RootsTech Exhibit Hall had something for everyone, genealogists AND techies.   For your benefit, I’ve created a virtual exhibit hall.  Since it never closes, you may walk this hall in your pajamas!  (These are the companies that had a presence at the exhibit hall.  Obviously there are other companies doing similar things, but I wanted [...]

A few months prior to RootsTech 2012, genealogy booksellers were informed by the conference staff that they would not be invited to have an exhibit booth in the RootsTech exhibit hall because, in the organizers’ opinion, books are not technology.  Excuse me?  Books ARE technology!   Paper is just an earlier version of the same things [...]

A year ago I asked my IT daughter, Sarah, to explain “the cloud” to me.  For those of you who don’t have an IT person in the family and don’t know what “the cloud” is, Sarah has written a great post, “What is The Cloud?” Even this cloud has silver linings.  One is the ability [...]

Attention Readers:  Our lives are about to change if we don’t take a stand.  My techie daughter, Sarah, has posted a VERY informative blog on her site Tech4mommies.com.  it’s called “Why is the Internet Broken?”  YOU HAVE TO READ THIS!  Today! As you read, it will become readily apparent why I don’t blog much about [...]

I’ll admit it.  I have control issues.  I need to feel like I’m in control of my environment.   How did I get to this place?  I can “trace” my hang-ups back to the time I was ten years old and my family and I were robbed at gunpoint in our home.  The robbers beat up [...]

What can I say?  It’s January and every where I go I see exercise equipment, workout DVDs, weights, diet plans, etc.   After the Christmas fifteen shows up in the mirror on New Year’s Day, many of us are motivated to try to drop at least ten of those unwanted newcomers.  Since you may have the [...]

Once you’ve decided on a software program and you have your data in a previous program, how do you transfer your data from the old to the new?  Start a new tree in the software you plan to use for your cleaned up database.  You have two options:  1.  Export a GEDCOM file from your [...]

If your goal this year is to get organized, you’ll  probably want to start with your genealogy software.  Maybe the one you’re using isn’t working for you.  If it isn’t, you should reconsider.  It’s probably not to late to try something new.    If you haven’t put your information into a database yet, make a list of [...]