Photos and comments from Arizona and around the world
If you stand on the Rim of the Grand Canyon during a storm, the light and view changes constantly. One minute the Canyon will be visible and the next, the clouds will move in and the Canyon will vanish from view. Watching the drama of the weather is compounded...
One of the most persistent questions I get during classes or presentations involves the issue of backing up genealogy files or moving them from one device to another. This problem comes up in the context of acquiring a new genealogy program and in using...
My computer talks to me. No, I am not going any crazier than I already am. My computer literally talks to me. If I forget to turn the sound down on my computer, the Apple operating system will read error messages and system messages in very loud voice....
The next few days will find me in snowy St. George, Utah. Both St. George and Mesa, Arizona had some unexpected cold and icy weather. Mesa had a huge hail storm that left drifts of ice that looked like snow. But St. George had actual snow. Fortunately,...
In Arizona, the presence of snow is strictly a function of altitude. It is not unusual to have snow above 4000 feet above sea level, but it is uncommon in the lower deserts. At lower levels snow accumulations are usually extremely light and the snow melts...
The faint rainbow effect vertically in the clouds is a Sun Dog. This is an atmospheric effect of the sun's angle on high, usually ice, clouds. They are really quite common, but I don't always have a camera ready when I see one. I am usually driving a...
From time to time, I hear stories with the theme of traveling the world over looking for happiness and then returning to realize you had it at home all along. The same thing could be said for beauty. I have seen pictures of some amazingly beautiful places...
I am helping out RootsMagic with their annual RootsTech.org Treasure Hunt. Here is the explanation of the Treasure Hunt from RootsMagic itself: It's been a tremendous last few months here at RootsMagic. We've been busy with the new releases of RootsMagic...
Some of my readers may remember my on-the-spot reporting of the Key Note presentations for RootsTech 2012. Well, this year the Keynotes are all being streamed, so there is no reason for instant reporting. You can watch them yourself by going to the RootsTech.org...
Ancestry.com reported the following: Total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2012 was $131.1 million, an increase of 25.8% over $104.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, driven by growth in our core Ancestry.com branded websites revenues. If you...
These entrenched bends in the river are called Goosenecks. This is the Colorado River from a cliff looking down 2000 feet or so. Along the edge of the cliff in the foreground, you can see the Shaffer Trail.
15 April 2013, Tax Day in the United States, has been targeted by FamilySearch for a major overhaul of the FamilySearch.org website. However, the messages I got yesterday from my meeting with the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group were mixed....
Springtime in the deserts of Arizona means that the palo verde trees bloom with their profusion of yellow. One of my most vivid memories from my youth, was driving out along the Bush Highway to Saguaro Lake and seeing a sea of yellow palo verde blossoms...
I find that taking pictures depends heavily on chance and opportunity. So many of the landscape photos you see in publications such as Arizona Highways and others, depended on the photographer being the right place at the right time. The challenge is...
Genealogy's Star Tomorrow the Mesa FamilySearch Library will be presenting another in its series of live, online webinars. I will be presenting this weeks webinar on an "Introduction of Online Genealogical Resources." This free series of webinars will...
Walking Arizona My Great-grandmother had a similar organ in her home that I remember from when I was very young. I always wondered what happened to the old organ. It may still be sitting in someone's living room today.
Genealogy's Star In a recent blog post, I described a way to find the exact address of someone living in a city using U.S. Census records and City Directories. This exact location is helpful to distinguish between people with the same or very similar...
Genealogy's Star In this session of Quick Views of Genealogy, I focus on online digital books for genealogists with several useful suggestions for finding and viewing online digitized books. This segment is part of a series on digitized books that...
Genealogy's Star For quite some time, I was writing regularly for a website called FamilySearch TechTips. As you can see from the link, the site is still online, but nothing has been added to the site since last year, 2012. The content of the site, to...
Genealogy's Star I don't want to appear to be a conspiracy theorist, but I do attribute a significant portion of the problems I face in the genealogy world to that acronymic program; GEDCOM. I have been dealing with the vagaries and limitations of the...
Walking Arizona When I was studying art at the University of Utah, we were taught to distinguish between areas of light and dark and see things as patterns rather than as objects. I think some of this carried over into my photography. I tend to see...
Genealogy's Star Google's decision to retire their Reader program caused an initial stir in the online community and boiled over into the genealogical community. I was a long time user of Reader and enjoyed the convenience, but all in all, it was a pretty...
Genealogy's Star The most commonly asked question at the recent Northern California Family History Expo in Sacramento was whether or not genealogists really needed a local decktop genealogy database program. The question arises in the context of all of...
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