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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Start Where You Are: Searching for 'Sonny Boy'
Over the past month, I’ve been researching and putting together a timeline of Grandpa Arthur Dorsey (1931-1991)’s life. I want to learn about his childhood, how he engaged with the world, and what happened during his lifetime. But learning about Arthur is… complicated.
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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 they 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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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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Upgrades for Digital Black History
Over the next few months, I’ll be adding some new features to Digital Black History!
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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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