Today I was going through some of my miscellaneous files and folders. One of them was a folder from a trip to DeSoto, MO in 2007. This is the birthplace of my grandmother, Margaret Helen Snyder. As I was going through this folder, which mostly contained itineraries, maps and cemetery listings, I noticed something that…
I thought I would create a quick video to demonstrate the methods I used to convert my generic “census” event in Legacy Family Tree to one that is based on the Year/Location of the census as I described in this post. In the video, I walk through creating a custom event, creating a search list of…
I spent last night moving my blog from Blogger to WordPress. I finally got everything put back together,sub-domains, dns entries,etc. and thought everything was working fine last night (I guess it was technically early this morning). I noticed today the Google Reader is displaying old posts. I assume this happened when I updated the permanlinks…
I have been sitting with my Legacy Family Tree file figuring out the best plan of attack for researching the 1940 U.S. Census. At first I was just going to run a query of all people living during that time that might be candidates for searching. This is fine, but since the 1940 census will…