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William Douglas's Blog – November 2009 Archive (3)

Can your ancestors' bad deeds affect you generations later?

Nikki Mackay, who lives in the next village, author of The Science of Family: Working with Ancestral Patterns

says you can blame your ancestors if you end up in doomed relationships, drink too much or generally just behave badly! Apparently, the events of previous generations can have far-reaching implications… Continue

Added by William Douglas on November 21, 2009 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Use of abbreviations

I have just read the Genwise newsletter, and find one of my frustrations is built into the Genwise system.

If I were to record an ancestor as being born, living or dieing in DG, would you know where i meant? It is an abbreviation for Dumfries and Galloway. But I would not expect Americans to know that.

Yet, we non-Americans are expected to know your state abbreviations!

Come on, guys, stop being lazy!

Added by William Douglas on November 19, 2009 at 3:16pm — 2 Comments

Is Google Wave the future of collabrative genealogy research?

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and… Continue

Added by William Douglas on November 6, 2009 at 7:30am — 3 Comments

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