Genealogy

 A family member has been hard at work scanning pictures and letters for some time. I certainly can't tell you what is where. I am familiar with an album that was shared with me. As we looked at sharing it with other family members of the family we knew the question of who are these people would come up. Once again I start from a perspective having done this elsewhere first, Aperature running on a mac. Tagging faces was easy as was searching on those people. It would pull other pictures in and ask if they were the same person. Slick. I have yet to attempt to restore that anywhere and see if it works without that software. That was before I remember easy access to apple information on the cloud. I first started using google photos when I got some Android phone. I blame that on my dad, as I had to know enough about his devices to support him. I failed to sell him on a cell phone or an iphone. I am no curious as to what motivated assorted family members to use it... My family member r...

Once again I am using this blog as a way to organize my struggles, in the hope i will figure out a solution,  or at least phrase the problem, in a way that others may help.  I started with one of the physical file I inherited,  based on my correspondence  with someone in Germany trying to connect our ancestors. There is other information on the region and family in the file. There should be a document tracking the effort and comparing the church data to familysearch. This is a recent process with a proliferation of such documents, because I keep getting preempted. An overview is needed. It's a pity I can't use Google docs to build an index with cross referencing other documents. Do I want to switch tools? Naming convention  I hope they are all somewhere under the genealogy folder.  This file is one of many that I inherited and am calling dad's archive. I have started a finders aid in a Google doc outlining the contents. I feel like it makes sense to print o...