This February post Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche from ReadWriteWeb has some good tips pertinent to genealogists who may wish to identify Blogs to read or subscribe to through RSS feeds.
This Commoncraft video provides a simple explanation of RSS.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Find My Past - Success
I took out a year's sub to Find My Past in February because I was enticed by the Shipping Records available there. Through these I was able to discover when my husband's Ball ancestors left the UK for Australia.
As this resource duplicates the information available on some of my other subs I have considered renewal.. Tonight I had time to investigate the recently adde4d Parish Records Collection. and to my delight found details for births and baptisms of my husband's Elms ancestors in thee London Docklands area. If Find My Past continues to add new databases that are not available elsewhere I will certainly renew my sub. All I need now is time to search for more ancestors in this new database.
Organising those photos
I've read a few posts from various genealogists suggesting use of online sites such as Flickr and Picasa to store and organise photo collections. These free tools provide one means of organising images, however, some people would rather keep their photos on their own systems and not store them
I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 to store and manage my growing collection (presently 52,000) of digital photos on a portable hard drive. After editing images it is an easy matter to place them in albums and tag them with details such as name, date, location, activity or any custom tag. These tags can be written as metadata to the images so that when the images are shared the tags are also shared. Custom searches of the collection are very fast enabling one to locate desired images within seconds. Once I have loaded, edited and tagged my images I back them up to DVD and store them away from the external hard drive housing the main collection.
I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 to store and manage my growing collection (presently 52,000) of digital photos on a portable hard drive. After editing images it is an easy matter to place them in albums and tag them with details such as name, date, location, activity or any custom tag. These tags can be written as metadata to the images so that when the images are shared the tags are also shared. Custom searches of the collection are very fast enabling one to locate desired images within seconds. Once I have loaded, edited and tagged my images I back them up to DVD and store them away from the external hard drive housing the main collection.
Monday, December 1, 2008
A Tribute to, Australian, Keith Wilson
Dick Eastman, in his newsletter, has alerted genealogists of the death of Australian genealogy software developer, Keith Wilson. Keith was the creator of iFamily for Leopard. The MacGenealogist has posted a tribute to Keith.
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