As I was reading my favorite blogs this morning, Dick Eastman has a post "AncestorSync To Bridge The Gap Between Desktop and Online Family History". If you have not read it, please take a look.
I personally work on my Family History with Legacy Family Tree software. I love the software and have used it forever. But I also want my Family information in the 'Cloud' so more people can find the information. I do have The McManigle Family website, I use Legacy to create the pages and then upload them. I have uploaded the GED file to Ancestry Family Trees, many many times! There is no way to Sync at this time. I have also uploaded a GED file to Geni and Archives. But again no way to Sync, the information needs to up re-uploaded. I probably have a couple more out there that I have forgotten. Also Geni and Archives does not allow a large GED file to be uploaded. So you can see if I tried to keep all of them up to date, I would enter one document to Legacy Family Tree and then spend at least an hour updating all the other trees. Needless to say, it just does not get done. BUT to be able to Sync them all would be very exciting!
I am looking forward to trying this new software out! Ancestorsync, is the name of the software, it is not available until June 2011, but they do have a PreOrder special, $10.00 for the first year! Usually $15.00 a year. I tried to PreOrder, but it is not available until tomorrow, 11 May 2011. I will certainly be heading back to the website to give it a try tomorrow.
and all my other family; Berglund, Borden, Botnen, Carlson, Earle, Hurd, Witter, Wells.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Busy Busy Day
Just finished viewing the Ancestry Webinar, "Finding Irish Ancestors in American . . . & Ireland". It was very good, BUT, not much help in finding information for our James McManigle, born in 1782! The Webinar was not very encouraging for locating information pre 1800, actually pre 1850! Can alway hope to find perhaps a newspaper article somewhere along the line.
I read alot of Blogs today, Dick Eastman's Blog announced a new 'Genealogy' search engine! Mocavo Genealogy Search. There were many comments in many of the Blogs today, some were not too nice! Some were though!
Why was I so busy today . . . I became lost in the Macavo Search for McManigle (on the first page of results!). Found old message boards, many I had forgotten about. Even one for the Morrow/Satterlee families that I had totally forgotten. I went into Legacy to see what I had on them . . . oh oh nothing! Took me a few minutes, but I figured out that perhaps it was saved in the backup of the McManigle Family website, last backup of 2006. (I was smart enough to saved a copy of all the pages, and I even remembered where I saved them to). Sure enough the information was there, but almost all of it had no sources. That information must have been found before I started keeping better sources. I did find a source for the Satterlee family that pointed to William James Satterlee's website, Satterlee.org . Yep pretty sure that is where I got that informtion, and he had added so many pictures and his memories of his grandparents, James Morrow Satterlee and Nettie Alvira McManigle. Wonderful stories and pictures, I spent hours copying and pasting! Note: I will not be posting those stories on the McManigle Family Website, William spent a long time on his website and so I have redirected interested people to his website, www.Satterlee.org . But I have add his information to my Legacy program and marked them private so that they do not post when I upload the pages.
Well, I guess I will head on back to Mocavo and look at more the of search results before I give my opinion of the new Macavo Genealogy Search engine! Give it try, can't hurt.
I read alot of Blogs today, Dick Eastman's Blog announced a new 'Genealogy' search engine! Mocavo Genealogy Search. There were many comments in many of the Blogs today, some were not too nice! Some were though!
Why was I so busy today . . . I became lost in the Macavo Search for McManigle (on the first page of results!). Found old message boards, many I had forgotten about. Even one for the Morrow/Satterlee families that I had totally forgotten. I went into Legacy to see what I had on them . . . oh oh nothing! Took me a few minutes, but I figured out that perhaps it was saved in the backup of the McManigle Family website, last backup of 2006. (I was smart enough to saved a copy of all the pages, and I even remembered where I saved them to). Sure enough the information was there, but almost all of it had no sources. That information must have been found before I started keeping better sources. I did find a source for the Satterlee family that pointed to William James Satterlee's website, Satterlee.org . Yep pretty sure that is where I got that informtion, and he had added so many pictures and his memories of his grandparents, James Morrow Satterlee and Nettie Alvira McManigle. Wonderful stories and pictures, I spent hours copying and pasting! Note: I will not be posting those stories on the McManigle Family Website, William spent a long time on his website and so I have redirected interested people to his website, www.Satterlee.org . But I have add his information to my Legacy program and marked them private so that they do not post when I upload the pages.
Well, I guess I will head on back to Mocavo and look at more the of search results before I give my opinion of the new Macavo Genealogy Search engine! Give it try, can't hurt.
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