Twittersheep

I am one of many genealogists who uses Twitter.

In a Mashable post today I read about some Twitter Follower visualisation tools. I had a play with the five listed and found that by using Twittersheep I could cloud generate a word cloud from the bios of  my )@geniaus') followers. This clearly showed me the interests of my followers.

It's no surprise that Family History Genealogy and Genealogist are the most prominent words in my cloud that is reproduced below. I wonder what sort of clouds my fellow genealogy Tweeps would produce using  Twittersheep.

How the internet works infographic

From Jane's Pick of the Day comes this infographic that explains "a little of the mystery from this great web."

Genealogists who wonder about what makes things tick will find this diagram illuminating.

[Via: Online Schools] 

What will you be remembered by?

From Aunty - ABC

What will you be remembered by?: "

We were inspired to talk about the impact the the obituary has in 2010 after hearing a lovely tale of survival. Neil Miles discovered a part of his life that he had no recollection of after an accident that left him with burns to 30 per cent of his body...all because he read the obituary notices in the paper.

Neil Miles of Port Macquarie was nice enough to share his story.

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So how important are death notices and the short biography of our lives known as the obituary?

We spoke to a funeral director, Diana Luccitti; and Nigel Starck, who's written about the classic newspaper obituary.

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Horses' Birthday

In Australia we celebrate Horses' birthdays on August 1st. Yesterday, on the horses' birthday,  I was thinking about the importance of horses to my ancestors for transport, work and play. This morning I looked for family photos I had with the tag "horses.".

I have chosen to share a photo of my Dad, aged 9 years, on a horse at the family farm in Canowindra, NSW. The skills my Dad learnt as a young boy on the farm helped him to gain membership, as an adult, of the prestigious New South Wales Mounted Police Force. I blogged about this previously in my post "When the Queen came to town".