'Pains and Gains' reported in June included Helen learning how to photograph old photos, load them from her camera to PC, crop, filter, rename and post to a person’s gallery and profile in ancestry.com. Helen’s pains included the disappearance of ‘Thrulines’ in the DNA page of her tree, although fortunately notifications of cousins sharing DNA links are still appearing.
Robyn reported continuing to enjoy working on her tree and shared her story ‘Out of My Usual Comfort Zone – Indian Records’ in which she explains using 'Pay as You Go' credits in ancestry.com to find records of family who spent time in India. A ‘pain’ for Robyn this month was calling in an IT specialist only to find out she probably needs to replace her laptop.
A highlight for avid reader of history Julie was finding a book she was looking for about the Highland Clearances in a rare boxed-set on E-Bay. Julie also described drawing on Trove's digitised newspaper collection to research her great grandfather, a Buckland Valley pioneer's son, finding him frequently mentioned in the Ovens/Valley newspaper in roles including rate collector and Police Magistrate.
Val spoke of valiantly writing up her family history and of her concerns about formatting the final document. Val also reported with glee that two younger family are keen to know more about their ancestors, saying it is such a delight to be asked ‘Gran, can you show me…?”
Apps introduced by Bev this month included ancestry.com's ‘create a keepsake’ link to https://www.mycanvas.com/ to create books, family tree posters and calendars drawing from ancestry.com data and the findpenguins.com online travel blog which is a wonderful way of recording visits to family sites while travelling.
Bev Lee
Robyn reported continuing to enjoy working on her tree and shared her story ‘Out of My Usual Comfort Zone – Indian Records’ in which she explains using 'Pay as You Go' credits in ancestry.com to find records of family who spent time in India. A ‘pain’ for Robyn this month was calling in an IT specialist only to find out she probably needs to replace her laptop.
A highlight for avid reader of history Julie was finding a book she was looking for about the Highland Clearances in a rare boxed-set on E-Bay. Julie also described drawing on Trove's digitised newspaper collection to research her great grandfather, a Buckland Valley pioneer's son, finding him frequently mentioned in the Ovens/Valley newspaper in roles including rate collector and Police Magistrate.
Val spoke of valiantly writing up her family history and of her concerns about formatting the final document. Val also reported with glee that two younger family are keen to know more about their ancestors, saying it is such a delight to be asked ‘Gran, can you show me…?”
Apps introduced by Bev this month included ancestry.com's ‘create a keepsake’ link to https://www.mycanvas.com/ to create books, family tree posters and calendars drawing from ancestry.com data and the findpenguins.com online travel blog which is a wonderful way of recording visits to family sites while travelling.
Bev Lee