On June 1st the 1921 Canada census passed into public domain in the care of the Library and Archives Canada (LAC). I’ve been waiting a long time for this release as have many others researching their Canadian families. According to LAC the 1921 census will be made available in the next few weeks. I have many family members to look…
Organizing your digital files is so important. It is so easy to misplace important files in the abyss of your hard drive! Not to mention having your files properly organized makes it so much easier to back up your data to the cloud or an external hard drive for safe keeping. When I first started adding my genealogy records…
I am a huge Evernote fan and I’ve used it daily for the past few years. I’ve found it to be a wonderful help when I’m researching. I can clip webpages, forum comments, images and make notes for the person or area I’m researching. Evernote does have a flaw that I’ve had many genealogy friends…
Randy at Genia-Musings has posted another great Saturday Night Blog Challange. Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) Go to Jill Ball’s Geniaus blog post describing A Small Social Media Geneameme. Note the 8 questions. 2) Answer one, two, some or all of the questions in your own…
Randy Seaver at Genea Musings has posted another great Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge! From his blog:Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and I hope that all of you do!), is to:1) Read Michael John Neill’s post 10 Signs You Have Genealogy OCD (come on, give Michael some link love) and the comments too (I know…
While I’ve been working on a newer family line (Howatt from PEI) I discovered some of my cousins were involved in politics there. I found this out by doing a Google search on their names and articles from Wikipedia came up in the top searches. One of my projects this year is to add more…
It’s hard to believe that it’s 2013 already! This past year seemed to just fly by. I don’t normally make New Years Resolutions but I do like to take time through out the year to reevaluate how things are going. There is always room for improvement, right? Looking back at my blog, it looks like…
Randy Seaver, at Genea-Musings,1) We’re going to do a little bit of Semi-Random Research tonight…2) Go to your family tree database of choice (you know, like RootsMagic, Reunion, Ancestry Member Tree), and determine who the very last person on your list of names is.3) What do you know about this person based on your research?…
Each year Footnote Maven host a wonderful blog caroling. The last time I joined in I shared my all time favourite song Silent Night. Although it really is so hard to pick just ONE favourite song! This year I would like to share another favourite since I was a little girl, it’s White Christmas. When…
This past Monday I finally had time to check in on Facebook and what was the first thing I see? A posting that RootsMagic 6 had been released! That was a wonderful surprise. Since then I’ve had time to try out the new version and watch RootsMagic’s latest webinar. I have to say I think…