Heartland Genealogy

What Was I Doing in 2001? It’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun time! This week’s challenge asks: Do you recall what you were doing in 2001? Family, school, work, hobbies, technology, genealogy, vacations, etc.? At first, I wasn’t sure how much I could remember about 2001. After all, that was 25 years ago! But once I started thinking about where I was working, what technology I was using, and what I was doing with genealogy, pieces of that year began falling into place. And, appropriately enough, I used today’s technology to help me reconstruct my life with the technology of 2001. Work and School In 2001, I was the librarian and technology coordinator at Nemaha Valley High School in Seneca, Kansas. By then, technology was a major part of my job. I managed the computers throughout the high school along with a network of Novell servers. One of those servers handled our email. Think about that for a moment. Today we take cloud-based email, Google services, wireless networks and Internet acces...

Do you use timelines in your genealogy research? I'm guessing that most people who have been searching their family history for some time have used some sort of timeline. When I retired and starting spending more time researching my family tree, I created a spreadsheet for my Crawford family research. In the spreadsheet, I was able to color code the people, locations and time periods. All of this information was copied from my RootsMagic data into the spreadsheet. It wasn't until I read Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Make a Timeline Report blog that I seriously looked at the Timeline Report in RootsMagic. Thanks to his post, I started looking at the built-in timelines on Ancestry and within RootsMagic.