Ancestors

Ancestors are the people in your tree who came before you.

You have 32 great-great-great grandparents

Descendants are people who come after you.

Here's a great article about Ancestors by Dick Eastman

Ancestors

Dick Henthorn
10 Sep 2019

The Digital Public Library of America | Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

The Digital Public Library of America | Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter:

Link to Richard Eastman's article about The Digital Public Library of America.

'via Blog this'

1 March 2015

Google Alerts - a Great Tool for Genealogists - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Google Alerts - a Great Tool for Genealogists - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter:

'via Blog this'

100,000 Family History Books now Online - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

100,000 Family History Books now Online - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter:

'via Blog this'

Dick Eastman's blog about resources available on the LDS website.

Wikis As A Genealogy Research Tool

Wikis As A Genealogy Research Tool

I think Wikis have lots of potential as genealogy tools.  I'm interested in investigating the topic.  

The most attractive feature of a Wiki, it seems to me, is that if the Wiki is public or open to invited members anyone can create or add to a page.  It's a way to collaborate in The Cloud.  Thus, it provides an open-ended way to share genealogy information, to post queries, to meet and bond with other people working on the same families.

Wiki Defined

Wiki defined on Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia.

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

These links are to articles found in Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

All but one of the links are abbreviated.  To read the entire article you must be a subscriber to the Plus Edition.

What is a Wiki and Why Should I Care?

A Very Personal Wiki

Video: Wikis in Plain English

Build a Wiki the Easy Way

Organize Your Life With A Wiki

Genealogy and Wikis

Genealogy and Wikis

HenthornFamily Wiki On Wikispaces

I created the HenthornFamily Wiki on Wikispaces to get us started with the learning process.  This isn't "my" Wiki.  Rather, it is "our" Wiki.  It's a learning exercise.  It's an experiment.  It's a genealogy project.  We don't know how the experiment will turn out.  In reality it all depends on "you."  If visitors are willing to post and share information there's no telling how useful the Wiki might be.  Don't hesitate to get involved.  As long as you keep your postings civil (no flaming allowed) and don't post advertisements we all should get along fine.

14,000 People Wrongly Reported Deceased Annually

Dick Eastman article about what happens when the Social Security Administration declares someone dead when they aren't.

14,000 People Wrongly Reported Deceased Annually

(Posted from NetWorkedBlogs to my Henthorn Genealogy News blog using a BlogThis! button I installed on the Chrome browser.)

Ahnentafel Explained - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Ahnentafel Explained - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Here's what Dick Eastman has to say about Ahnentafel, with some comments and questions by other folks.

Delicious Genealogy

I was able to add bookmarks to pages on my Google genealogy group to Delicious. That's nice because the bookmarks allow me to write a description of the file I am referencing.

Tags make it possible to focus on a topic within my bookmarks. For example, If someone wants to see all of my bookmarks that have a tag for the "Yoho" family entering this URL is all it takes.

http://del.icio.us/MrDickie/Yoho

You can also search for more than one tag by entering a plus sign (+) between tags. For example: to find all of my bookmarks pointing to the articles about "PDF" written by Dick Eastman use this URL.

http://del.icio.us/MrDickie/Eastman+PDF

After trying this URL enter the following line without the word "Eastman" to see the difference. This one finds all of the pages about "PDF."

http://del.icio.us/MrDickie/PDF

This ability to gather all of the links together in one set is very powerful. You could think of the bookmarks of "MrDickie" as a website with pointers to all of the webpages he's either found or posted himself. This website doesn't have a structure, like a tree or organizational chart. Rather the website is dynamic or virtual. The visitor searches for the topic of interest using a tag or tags and Delicious presents a display, similar to a Google search, which gathers all of the pages about the topic of interest together.

There's more to it than I'm writing about here. Once you are at Delicious you will see lists of tags, a place to key in tags, counts of the number of times the tags were used and much more.

If you take a look at what I have done so far I'd appreciate hearing your opinion. Did you find it useful? Was it easy to learn and use?

Mr. Dickie