https://www.rootstech.org/
Held in Salt Lake city every year, I think the website this year is the best ever. It's user friendly!! Just read, scroll, click.
You'll even find this header: #NotAtRootsTech 2018? Here's How to Participate Virtually
Learn how to take part in RootsTech 2018 if you are attending virtually, or #NotAtRootstech. Click on it and enjoy! I can't link live today as there is some technical glitch preventing it.
Cheers,
Pat
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monday, February 26, 2018
FREE Webinars for March
And there are some unusual topics! https://media.familysearch.org/free-family-history-library-classes-and-webinars-for-march-2018/
Cheers,
Pat
Cheers,
Pat
Sunday, February 25, 2018
R U Reading Your DNA Results All Wrong?
So many of us probably have questions about our DNA etnicity results - I certainly was confused, especially with my MTDNA heavy leaning towards the British Isles, when all paper records show Germany and Netherlands. Well folks, I found this article that makes some wonderful points and shares some interesting background information. Have a gander https://familyhistorydaily.com/genealogy-help-and-how-to/understanding-dna-results/
Cheers,
Pat
Cheers,
Pat
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Problems, Challenges, Bad Luck
So here's what's been happening:
Had a lot of company for close to 3 weeks. Love them all, but that's the end. think we're past being tour guides and will just meet up with friends from wherever they stay from now on.
Now for more first world problems: My Samsung 6 Edge Plus cell phone began to do silly things. Uh oh. I was supposed to get a new one before leaving Canada, but I didn't want a bunch of new stuff to learn while on holiday and far from personal assistance. So maybe my Edge needs a new battery? Turns out the battery is not removable ... without some very serious knowledge. Sigh. Oh yeah, and it won't charge! At all!! As I'm still in Mexico for another six weeks I turned to our old Samsung 2 Note that we use as a Mexican cell phone which is always 'live' to the Internet while here. My husband uses it. I'm about to lose my mind as it's sooooooooo slow and clunky, BUT at least my laptop is fine (crossing all my personal digits NOW, for luck). Ohhhh and I've got gel nails on that are more like claws - they look cool, but I can't type or text easily with them. Vanity, thy name is wumin? haha
So, this is why I've not been consistant adding info to this blog. Sorry!! Can't fix my phone, either phone actually, but nails come off next week. Hope to rejoin the genealogy world at that time.
These are my problems, challenges, and bad luck. Thanks for sharing Pat? Lol
Hope your days are less complicated!!
Cheers,
Pat
Had a lot of company for close to 3 weeks. Love them all, but that's the end. think we're past being tour guides and will just meet up with friends from wherever they stay from now on.
Now for more first world problems: My Samsung 6 Edge Plus cell phone began to do silly things. Uh oh. I was supposed to get a new one before leaving Canada, but I didn't want a bunch of new stuff to learn while on holiday and far from personal assistance. So maybe my Edge needs a new battery? Turns out the battery is not removable ... without some very serious knowledge. Sigh. Oh yeah, and it won't charge! At all!! As I'm still in Mexico for another six weeks I turned to our old Samsung 2 Note that we use as a Mexican cell phone which is always 'live' to the Internet while here. My husband uses it. I'm about to lose my mind as it's sooooooooo slow and clunky, BUT at least my laptop is fine (crossing all my personal digits NOW, for luck). Ohhhh and I've got gel nails on that are more like claws - they look cool, but I can't type or text easily with them. Vanity, thy name is wumin? haha
So, this is why I've not been consistant adding info to this blog. Sorry!! Can't fix my phone, either phone actually, but nails come off next week. Hope to rejoin the genealogy world at that time.
These are my problems, challenges, and bad luck. Thanks for sharing Pat? Lol
Hope your days are less complicated!!
Cheers,
Pat
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
City of Victoria BC 0nline
Full explanation included (should you care to listen) otherwise here ya go to the FREE City of Victoria BC city government, community records, and digital photographs. https://archives.victoria.ca/
Cheers,
Pat
Cheers,
Pat
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Colorado's Germans from Russia
The hidden history - http://www.coloradolifemagazine.com/October-2017/Germans-from-Russia/
Cheers,
Pat
Cheers,
Pat
R U Stll Using Internet Explorer?
If you are you will notice that it no longer works on familysearch.org or maybe you haven't noticed. haha Anyway I'm using Google Chrome and am happy with it, for whatever that's worth. https://www.google.com.mx/search?ei=vzZ2WroxyfyPA5eqgPAI&q=google+chrome+download&oq=google+chrome+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l8j0i10k1j0.19080.19080.0.22402.1.1.0.0.0.0.142.142.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.142....0.tBOD_1werCA
And nope, I get nothing from it. Hahaha
Cheers,
Pat
And nope, I get nothing from it. Hahaha
Cheers,
Pat
Finding OFFLINE Records
Title says it all https://familyhistorydaily.com/genealogy-help-and-how-to/offline-research-necessary/
Cheers,
Pat
Cheers,
Pat
Pier 21
I visited Pier 21 and it's an amazing place, BUT do plan carefully before visiting. I've blogged about this before - plan on days when no cruise ships are there for one thing - so here is another story https://blog.flyporter.com/pier-21-halifax/.
Cheers,
Pat
Cheers,
Pat
A Personal Genealogy Connection in Mexico?
So for the past 20 some years a 'young lady' and I have been working together tracing the 2x great parents we share - Johnston McNIECE babt 1816 Ireland (somewhere!) and his wife Martha JONES babt 1826 New York State (somewhere!). Michele lives in the Chicago area of Illinois USA, and me on the Canadian Prairies.
Over those years we have shared a lot - not just old often frustrating genealogy, but day to day lives. We have seen each other through divorce, deaths, births, jobs, good times and all the rest. But we never met! Until Huatulco Mexico a few days ago. Yes, it took some planning, but it all worked out and we're both so happy we made it work. It was like visiting with an old friend for three days. We even went together on a moonlight float down a river, through mountains, over rapids, getting soaked, until the river met the Pacific Ocean ... and all this under the Super Blue Moon of January 31st, 2018.
What would Johnston and Martha and all their descendants think of this? So we CAN make genealogy and long dead ancestors come alive. haha. I am so lucky! But it also requires taking chances, planning, and then just doing it!! Just do it folks - you'll never be any younger or any healthier or probably any richer than you are right now.
Cheers,
Pat
Over those years we have shared a lot - not just old often frustrating genealogy, but day to day lives. We have seen each other through divorce, deaths, births, jobs, good times and all the rest. But we never met! Until Huatulco Mexico a few days ago. Yes, it took some planning, but it all worked out and we're both so happy we made it work. It was like visiting with an old friend for three days. We even went together on a moonlight float down a river, through mountains, over rapids, getting soaked, until the river met the Pacific Ocean ... and all this under the Super Blue Moon of January 31st, 2018.
What would Johnston and Martha and all their descendants think of this? So we CAN make genealogy and long dead ancestors come alive. haha. I am so lucky! But it also requires taking chances, planning, and then just doing it!! Just do it folks - you'll never be any younger or any healthier or probably any richer than you are right now.
Cheers,
Pat
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