Genealogy

Events associated with a place Recently I saw a picture of a frozen Barnegat Bay, that had me flashing back to a time with  people driving on the ice and falling thru. I had a range of years it could have been, but not a precice cold snap. So I googled it and found a newspaper article , I found it interesting and  worthy of sharing. (To be fair I have memories of ice skating, an ocean beach fire permit, and assorted other things too.) However the people in the article were not ones I knew, so in GRAMPS I started attaching them to the town my family owned in but never had a residence. Technically it is not even  a town in the article , it is across the bridge near which the one car sank. (BTW this blo wganted to self configure a link instead of using the embed html that newspapers.com offered.) In my mind the further spot  was straight across the bay from our boats and in the range of "stay in sight" to play and was where we took power  boats for gas, so still a...

 A family member (or maybe more as the text conversation continues) has been helping me update her branch of the family tree by text message! Thanks! In the past I have scribbled on some descendant tree print out (or a napkin) and then updated the tree online and sent a copy. This still happens. Having lost everything with a computer failure, I am starting from scratch. (Yes, I am ignoring familysearch for now. A great many are recent live offspring. Although I have also asked about inlaws I am likely to run into at gatherings. I am keeping the local copy separate as I may try to mangle the local familysearch data.) I have created a new GRAMPS tree for her branch.  The thing that makes today's effort different is trying to record the source information. Looked at  gedcom - Citing a conversation with a living relative - Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange  for an idea of how to do this. As suggested I added a repository, Personal Collection, and a Source des...

What is the best way of sharing my geneaolgy progress and questions with friends and family with a minimum effort? Quite frankly it could apply to any subject area. What are my journaling goals? How much do these overlap? Apparently I still don't know. Facebook is a broadcast media that reaches a wide number of people  that may be interested. One of the the things I have enjoyed is responses from people I would not have thought to email. Unfortunately Facebook seems best for short posts that do not need to be found again. Also I don't know anybody that understands which posts a user sees. Additionally most of us users are looking to improve the signal to noise ratio of what we read. One of the ways I attempt do this for my audience is put information in comments under previous posts. This balance  always seems uncertain. Facebook seems better suited for raising awareness with a link,  than the actual content.  Blogger seemed to better fit longer narration and using t...