Daniel Johnson's Blog – December 2010 Archive (5)

 Quick up date, we have started sharing some information now in the FB group and one of our family members has a few documents that I did not have that she scanned and posted there. Now I can take those and blow them up and print them out for hard copies. Since they are marriage, death and birth records this is kind of major scoring. So taking the FB challenge to another level paid off for our research in this since. Sharing the information though digital images might not be as fun for some…

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Not only have I been able to find missing family members that our family have never met on Face Book but I have also set up a hidden group on FB for those of us doing research to be able to sharing information on our research, pass information on what we are working on and coordinating. research task. It not only connects all the family researchers together but it also helps us get an idea of who has what files, where to go for information and a host of other issues and interesting with the… Continue

I have been gathering and planning out a scrapbook project to go long with my genealogy / history project. Scrapbook projects do take time and if you do not catch some really great sales they can be costly. The up side is that family members that might not want to look at data and plain charts might really like to see your handy work. There are also some really cool things that I have found to aid in the creative side of this project. Here are some really great examples of things you can…

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As far as finding data on family and history I tend to be pretty good at that and have been able to score some really great finding on our family. Sadly I have become a data collector however and now its time to start putting all that "Stuff" into a program to organize it and make since out of all this information. WOW! what a task this is going to be with the information, documents, pictures etc that I have collected in a very short year or so. Being a data collector is only one step to…

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For those of your who still doubt the importance of updating your game plan to using more current on line and program resources I would like to give you some examples of how using some of these modern day wonders have expanding not only my research but has expanded my family also.

One of the greatest things to come out of my research is finding a whole group of family members who our family had never had contact with on FACE BOOK of all places. As a result my family now has at least…

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