Photos and comments from Arizona and around the world
I recently installed Version 5.2.18.0 of Personal Ancestral File (PAF) on my Windows 8 computer. The program seems to run just fine. This is sort-of like finding a living dinosaur in your backyard with a program that was last updated in 2002. The program...
During the morning of this day, the Grand Canyon was completely socked in with clouds and zero visibility. I felt sorry for the people who had come to see the Canyon from far away. But by the end of the day, the clouds lifted and there were wonderful...
The best time to take photos of landscapes is in the early morning or late afternoon, The light brings out the colors and gives a warm glow to the mountains and other natural objects. I love the Grand Canyon because it looks good all the time but better...
The reason mangrove swamps are such a good protection for the beaches lies in this mass of roots. When the trees grow next to each other, there is a solid mass of these shoots that break up the action of the waves and keep the beach from eroding. We have...
The Desert View Tower at the Grand Canyon was constructed during a different time in our history, with different sensibilities. Here we can see a large rock, covered with petroglyphs, incorporated into the construction. This would be highly illegal today...
Sitting at RootsTech in an Unconferencing Session, I heard that the new genealogy app, Legacy Mobile was available for download. Of course, during the course of the panel discussion, I downloaded the app, but did not have time to look at it until today....
Zap The Grandma Gap Are the youth in your family more attached to their iPod or laptop screen than they are to you? How do you connect to your family members and form the kind of close relationships that will support and strengthen them as they grow...
This view suggests that it would be extremely difficult to approach the top of this mountain and it would be a correct deduction. But in almost every case, the mountain that appears unapproachable is really quite easy to climb. They sometimes put up a...
I have often noted that I see faces and figures in patterns all around me. I understand that it is a natural phenomena, but interesting nonetheless. The petroglyphs were near this huge rock and I wonder if the ancients who made the rock art and petroglyphs...
Everywhere in the Colorado Plateau there are evidences of fallen rocks. I once had the good/bad fortune to witness a huge rock fall along the shore of Lake Powell. I can imagine, from that experience, what it would be like to see something like this boulder...
Oops, I am reposting this. I guess I copied the name wrong once and kept going with it. The program is Treelines, not Timelines. Sorry Tammy. Here is an interview between DearMYRTLE and Treelines developer Tammy Hepps. Treelines won the RootsTech...
At RootsTech 2013, Janet Hovorka debuted her Zap the Grandma Gap Workbook to accompany her previously published book. Here is the description of the book from her website: Brainstorm about what activities will synergize your descendants with their heritage....
As a genealogy and family history event planner I don’t always get to attend the classes and take notes at our Expos because I’m so busy with administrative responsibilities. It was a real pleasure to attend classes every hour, to meet and greet friends...
There is no adequate way to describe the way the Grand Canyon changes with the different light that comes through clouds and during the day as the sun moves across the sky. I could stand there for hours, but have to be content with short trips and take...
In a blog post dated 27 March 2013, Gordon Glarke made the following announcement: FamilySearch is pleased to announce that FamilyHero and BrowseHero are now Tree Access certified to work with FamilySearch Family Tree data. “Certified” means the product...
Here is a link to a brief presentation by FamilySearch.org about what is "Coming Soon." I noted the comment in the short video that you can discover, build, preserve and share your genealogy (family history) entirely online. This message is clear that...
Floating like ghost mountains above the red rocks of the Colorado Plateau, the La Sal Mountains are probably one of the least visited of the high mountains in Utah. It was too early in the year to think about driving up into the mountains, but we may...
If you look closely at the center of the three figures, you will see why this particular rock art is called "Intestine Man." The location is not marked on a highway, consistent with the idea that too many people will destroy these priceless treasures...
Have the online family tree programs progressed to the point that you no longer need to buy your own genealogical database program? Can you now keep all your records online? The answer to both of these questions is a qualified no. The reason the no is...
Sometimes when I am walking through a building, I notice the patterns created by the architecture. This was a particularly striking pattern in an airport. I like the repetition of the motifs from side to side and the strong angles. Like many of my photos,...
This is one of the many pictures I have taken of doors. This one also happens to be a window so it fits in both my door and window categories. I would contrast this with many of the more rustic photos I have taken of doors, including those in Indian ruims...
brightsolid (with lower case letters) is one of the "Big Four" online genealogy companies. In a recent interview with Elaine Collins, Business Development Director, at RootsTech, we discussed the status of the various websites developed by brightsolid.com....
Genealogy will always be involved in the issue of identity theft as long as banks and other institutions stupidly keep using family relationship information for their security questions. Since I have multiple family trees online, how naive is it to use...
Recently, as I have been discussing FamilySearch FamilyTree/Photos website and one of the most persistent questions about the new site involves issues with digitizing and then uploading photos. This website, like many others that host personal photographs...
On the Florida Barrier Islands, the inlets and bays are mostly all salt water. By definition they are estuaries where they originate in a river. This is a small inlet on the Barrier Island and it is debatable whether or not this a real estuary of merely...
