Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs
on 02/09/2010 at 01:30 PM
That evil AGW just dumped another load on us - hubby did not go out (and we have to shell out another dollar for not returning Zombieland to the machine) - and he’s already plowed (with our new spiffy electric blower) twice today and guess what - it’s still coming down!
I spent the day ruining what crappy eyesight I have left entering all the families into Family Tree (at least this program allows the addition of all those neat antique documents and pictures) I still fight after 5 marathon entry sessions to do multiple marriages with any ease (seems I keep forgetting). I do not see how anyone does data entry for any length of time at all - my desk space looks like a tornado hit, my back and neck ache and I have left it umpteen times from simple frustrations (and I haven’t even really put in a lot of those nifty antique documents). Yet. Oh & this is the second time (dos program way back in the early 90s) that I have done this - what a pain.
So far so good as to not losing power - but we are scared silly as we don’t have a fireplace in this shack. So off to find heat - if we have to. It is suppose to keep snowing throughout the night.
Yeah, if this global warming gets much worse - guess what - all that water they are worried about just might flood the land - come spring!
I did data entry for about 3 months once upon a time. It is an awful job.
My mom does the genealogy stuff with Family Tree Maker. Oh, she’s into it, looking up records, visiting the LDS offices, and all that. FTM tends to crash and screw up once in a while ... so back up early and often. It can be frustrating if you can’t find a missing generation. She’s got one branch of the family back to the mid 1600s, and one generation before that has them traced back to the days of Frisian kingdoms. But missing records on one woman that would link both sides together. For her, the confusing part is often the parsimonious way the Olde English dealt out names. Every male is either John or Thomas, and all the females are Mary or Elizabeth. For about 200-300 years.
“ ...a clearing house for climate change data.”
Ah-ha! So that’s where the “adjustments” will be made on climate data in the future?
Yeah....right.
Because god forbid the raw data should be accessible to just anyone, and these individual scientists can’t be relied upon to cover their tracks effectively. I mean, look at the botched job of it they’ve done so far!
Drew - I’ve used FTW for over 10 years and over 1000 name entries, and it has NEVER crashed on me. I own no other piece of software that I can make that claim about. Additionally, I have never needed the manual (although I have it - still in the box). The help functions on the software are truly excellent.
And ... I used to live in Phoenix, where there is a convenient LDS records site. I loved doing genealogy there. They’re so helpful....
Well lets see. A new agency at the cost of millions or the old standby Farmers Almanac for a few bucks or a download for free.
Tough Choice HUH!!!I have Family Tree Heritage - first dos program was Personal Roots) mostly I got onto this kick as at my Mom’s annual party last year someone in the family had made up a huge linage map for my (dead) sisters oldest son. And this year - back at it again because of all the antique photographs I have pulled in just prior to and just after my Moms passing.
It hasn’t crashed but just the tediousness (and as I said - the multiple marriage issue is driving me nutszoid). One neat thing - when I was a girl I remember one day sitting down with the Family Bible - a huge old German one - and among the things stuffed into it was a letter to PC Fischer asking his permission to marry his daughter. PC immigrated to America from Coblenz Germany. And yesterday I found his picture. And 4 hundred+ (oldest 118) year old letters from my paternal great-great grandmother to her husband - he died in 1907, so they really did not have many years together. Not to mention the 1945 Gas Ration Stamps. It’s just neat to hold old - history - in your hands.
