Randy Seaver on his Genea-Musings blog is currently doing a series on creating source citations in RootsMagic 7. In this series he is showing how to set up sources using the Source Templates or Free Form. The posts so far on this series are: Creating Source Citations in RootsMagic 7 - Post 1: New Master… Continue reading Creating your own source templates in RootsMagic 7
Month: January 2016
Surname Saturday – Harreld (Harrald, Harold)
Last week, I did a post on the surname Harley, and told how I had traced my family back to John Harley and Agnes Moncur. John and Agnes were married in Longforgan, and their children were also born there. John’s death certificate had showed that his parents were Robert Harley and Janet Gun (or Cur). … Continue reading Surname Saturday – Harreld (Harrald, Harold)
Same name, different child
Kathleen McKenzie on her Vita Brevis blog wrote a post “The Name’s the Same”, where she told of how her great grandparents had two children who had died young, and they had then given two younger children the same names. She had investigated this, and found that it was an Irish custom, to honor the… Continue reading Same name, different child
Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun – Two Degrees of Separation
Each week on Randy Seaver’s Genea-musings blog he has a post for Saturday night Genealogy fun. Because of the time difference, I have called my series Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun. This week the mission was. 1) Using your ancestral lines, how far back in time can you go with two degrees of separation? That means "you knew an… Continue reading Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun – Two Degrees of Separation
Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun – Your 2016 Genealogy Education Plans
Each week on Randy Seaver’s Genea-musings blog he has a post for Saturday night Genealogy fun. Because of the time difference, I have called my series Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun. Last week the mission was 1) What are your genealogy education plans for 2016? Local society meetings or seminars? Regional or national conferences? Weeklong institutes? Genealogy cruises? Podcasts?… Continue reading Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun – Your 2016 Genealogy Education Plans
A further update about the Ancestry free access to Australian records
Last night I wrote that the free access at Ancestry wasn't working. I decided to give it another try this morning, and it appears that whatever the problem was last night, it has now been fixed, as I am now able to view the records without using my credits.
Ancestry free weekend update
So much for the free access to Australian records at Ancestry for the whole weekend. I went back in to the site to search more records today, and was prompted to sign up for a subscription. My Pay-per-view subscription expired today, so I tried resubscribing to the the pay-per-view option. Although I can view the index entries, as… Continue reading Ancestry free weekend update
Surname Saturday – Harley
This week, the surname I am focusing on is Harley. This was my paternal grandmother’s surname. My grandmother was Ivy May Harley. She was born 6 September 1890 at South Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria (Australia). She married my grandfather John Ernest Whimpey on 22 September 1914 at the Methodist Church in Kilcunda, Victoria,… Continue reading Surname Saturday – Harley
Making the most of the Ancestry and FindMyPast free weekend
If you have ancestors/relatives in Australia, the range of databases Ancestry offers that aren’t available for free elsewhere is greater than that of FindMyPast. I decided to test this out by seeing what records were available on FindMyPast and on Ancestry for my maiden name: Whimpey. FindMyPast, in their Census, Land & Surveys section, only… Continue reading Making the most of the Ancestry and FindMyPast free weekend
Transcript 2.5
Linda Stufflebeam on her Empty Branches on the Family Tree blog wrote the post “Try Transcribe 2.5 to Transcribe Old Documents”. For a long time, I have been switching back and forwards between the image and my word processor, but then I realized that if I tile the windows of my Picture Viewer and my… Continue reading Transcript 2.5
