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

Genealogy Publishing with PDF

I've started a project to post bookmarks to websites of interest on the social bookmarking website: Delicious.

This link presents a series of websites that would be useful if you are interested in using PDF to publish genealogy or anything else. A number of articles written by Dick Eastman are very useful. There are three sites for affordable PDF publishing programs. One of them, Ancestral Author, uses a GEDCOM file to publish a hyper-linked genealogy report.

To display PDF website links from Mr. Dickie's bookmarks on Delicious click the link below.

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

Who Reads This Blog?

I wonder if there is a way to install a visitor counter on Google blogs? That could be very handy. Without a counter or some feedback there is no way to tell if anyone is reading what's posted on a blog.

If you visited, feel free to add a comment to let me know whether you found anything of interest. I'd appreciate the feedback.

I'm trying to encourage myself to get busy posting to the two Google genealogy blogs I created and the Google genealogy group I created.

Dick Henthorn

Allen County Public Library - Fort Wayne, IN

It's been months since I posted anything to this blog. I think I am ready to post something from time to time. At the present time I am not actively working on genealogy. I do, however, have many documents and other information that I can share. Let's see where this takes me.

If you are interested in Henthorn genealogy and are fortunate to be able to visit the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN you can review five documents with information about the Henthorn family.

"Henthorn family: James Henthorn II, of Monroe County, Ohio" by Richard E. Henthorn and Mary Josephine (Henthorn) Bolerjack.

"Joseph Fox, his descendants and related families: including: Ammons, Barr, Berdine, Crane, Dulaney, Haines, Henderson, Hennen, Henthorn, Lemley, Michael, Myers, Nuzum, Phillips, Smith, Stephens/Stevens, Tennant & etc." by Charles Scott Fox.

"Five Methodist families of western Pennsylvania, 1785: Henthorn, Jones, Lackey, Murphy, Pumphrey" by Raymond Martin Bell.

"The Henthorn family, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia: with notes on Cresap and Quinn families" by Norma L. Henthorn.

"Descendants of Hugh and Mary Jackson, Sr. and related families: Craft, Dunaway, Fuller, Henthorn and McCleary" by Albert G. Macdonald.

AOL Did It

The End of My AOL Website and Journals

I checked at 6:00 p.m. to see if AOL removed my website and my journals from the Internet. They did! Thus ends a season in my life.

Mr. Dickie

Last Two Days

There is transcendent power in a strong intergenerational family. An effectively interdependent family of children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins can be a powerful force in helping people have a sense of who they are and where they came from and what they stand for. (Stephen R. Covey, Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People, October 29)

LAST TWO DAYS

Please be aware that on October 31st AOL will discontinue support for the genealogy website I have maintained on their service for many years. If there is something on the website that you'd like you should either print it or save a copy of the webpage file either today or tomorrow.

This blog, Henthorn Genelaogy News, is provided by Google. I'll continue to post here from time to time as I decide what I want to do next with my interest in genealogy.

Thanks again to everyone who shared information and support over the years.

Mr. Dickie

Nearest of Kin

I am myself, my own nearest of kin; I am dearest to myself. (Terence in At My Best, 25 October)