Category Archives: Genealogy

2013: Just the Good Stuff

  I’ve decided to wrap-up 2013 with the obligatory 2013 Year in Review listicle. This isn’t a Top 10 List or in any particular order, just some of my favorite genealogy related products and services from the past year that … Continue reading

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Outing my Genealogy Software

Back in 1996 I was in college and Gateway 2000 had just delivered my first PC with its whopping $2,300 price tag. Unfortunately, paying $50 for a genealogy program wasn’t in my budget but paying $20 per month for AOL … Continue reading

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Living in a cemetery

I’ve heard it said that private investigators are experts at locating living people, and genealogists are experts at finding the dead ones. And so it is that genealogists and cemeteries seem to be inextricably tied to one another, at least … Continue reading

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The day the genealogy died

Truth be known, this blog was supposed to happen over 18 months ago. Oops. Everybody knows to back-up their data via several different methods and with over 1GB worth of files from 25 years of genealogy research, I had a … Continue reading

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