The Blog
Hey, welcome to the blog! I use this space to occasionally write about family history, projects I'm working on, and to muse about technological implications for the future.
Posts
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Taking Advantage of Free Access to Pay-wall Resources: Newspapers.com
Every so often, genealogy websites will offer free access to their materials. These typically happen around the holidays (like Newspapers.com’s recent free access offer for President’s Day), but may happen more regularly too (such as accessing Ancestry for free from your public library). While you should definitely take advantage of these opportunities, in order to make the most out of them, it pays to be prepared.
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Upgrading Digital Black History: Wrangling Data the Hard Way
I recently added new features to Digital Black History that allow users to perform more advanced searches on projects in the directory. Previously, you could only search by keyword. Now, you can also search based on a location (city, state, country) and time period (a range of years)! This makes it even easier to narrow your search to find digital Black history projects.
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Finding Steave
It’s funny how the smallest, almost mundane things can bring you the greatest discoveries. But I finally did it. I found my great-grandfather’s parents.
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GenTech 2021: Technology tutorials for family historians
GenTech is well underway this Spring! I started the YouTube series in Spring 2020 to try my hand at providing technology tutorials. But not just ANY technology tutorials. These are meant to show how you can use a variety of technology tools to share, organize, and collaborate on your family history research.
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Genealogy as Self-Care
When I reflect on my ancestors, I think about how they would like to be remembered and how they would feel if their descendants didn’t know who they were. I do genealogy research to revere them and their trials. I spend so much time doing it because I find it crucial to make their memories last. They mattered.
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After We Die, Our Descendants Will Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves
What impact will your digital life have on your legacy?
Social media makes it easy for users to post all kinds of information about their lives online. Pleasant interfaces make users willing to reveal personal information, which become a product for social media companies and a small part of a user’s larger digital footprint.
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