Photos and comments from Arizona and around the world
Walking Arizona This is called the Alpine Coaster at the Park City Mountain Resort. It was more interesting visually than it was as a ride, although it was better than the Alpine Slide and not as fast as the Zip Line. I like the perspective.
Some cactus bloom in profusion and others have a single flower. This cactus makes up for lack of quantity with quality; one single gorgeous white blossom.
Walking Arizona The agave plant grows for years and then sends up one huge shoot that blossoms into several large yellow blooms. Most of the time, these blossoms are inaccessible because they are ten or more feet up in the air. I just happened to get...
Genealogy's Star This is the second in the series Introducing the FamilySearch Research Wiki. In this segment, I talk about the structure of the Wiki pages as shown in the View menu located in the right side Navbox on the Research Wiki. Understanding...
Family History Expos Plans for the Northern California Family History Expo 2013 are well underway. The complete class schedule is available online and the date and location are also. Come join us at the Northern California Expo and learn how to research...
Walking Arizona Well, I am fudging a little with the title. It doesn't really rain here in Arizona very often. The water drops on this poppy were from a sprinkler. But I liked the title anyway.
Genealogy's Star Nathan Murphy, a consultant at the Family History Library, mentioned a new book about the history of genealogy. The book is Weil, François. Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America. 2013. I must say that the book would only be...
Genealogy's Star I have been trying to analyze my impressions that the basic activities of genealogy, that is doing research into family origins, is being popularly denigrated by characterizing what I do as merely an interest in names, dates and places...
Walking Arizona It is amazing to me how the light can capture the detail of some parts of a scene and leave the rest in shadow and darkness. The contrast is sometimes dramatic, as it is here. To make this type of photo, you need to have strong sunlight...
Walking Arizona The agave plant grows for years and then sends up one huge shoot that blossoms into several large yellow blooms. Most of the time, these blossoms are inaccessible because they are ten or more feet up in the air. I just happened to get...
Here's another in my series of Quick Views of Genealogy. This one is on attaching sources to FamilySearch.org's Family Tree from FamilySearch.org. I will do another video on attaching sources from websites other than FamilySearch.org in the near future....
Genealogy's Star This is another in the series of Quick Views of Genealogy. This segment is an introduction to the FamilySearch.org Research Wiki. It tells how to find the Wiki and explains some of the basic concepts and features. In subsequent Quick...
Walking Arizona Sometimes I can see images in nature that could have been the basis for the impressionist movement of painting. This photo of a small pond filled with algae is very suggestive of a Renoir painting.
Using pedigree charts, fan charts, family group records and other forms are ubiquitous in genealogical research. But the inherent structure of these forms is not just a convenience. In many instances, the way the information is displayed hinders, rather...
Back on February 28, 2011, I wrote a very brief post entitled "Quick Correction on last post on New FamilySearch." Remarkably, that one post has had over 26,000 visits over the years. The point raised in the post has long since become entirely irrelevant...
Genealogy's Star This Quick View of Genealogy focuses on locating the resources in the redesigned FamilySearch.org website. In this brief overview I show you how to find all of the major resources of the website, including the Historical Record Collection,...
St. George, Utah sits in a spectacularly scenic area surrounded by natural wonders. One of the advantages of the city is that there are roads going up the surrounding hills that give you a panoramic view of the area. If I had gotten to know a little more...
Genealogy's Star My prior posts were not intended to answer the question as to whether family history was actually part of the greater study of genealogy or whether the opposite was true and the greater study is family history. I think they are essentially...
The recent webinar on the FamilySearch.org Research Wiki is now available online on the website for the Mesa FamilySearch Library.
Walking Arizona I couldn't resist these natural PacMan guys swimming in a little pool of water. Yes, children, I am old enough to remember PacMan.
If you look through my photos, even though there are a lot of them, you will find my pictures of faces in rocks and trees and other objects. I love to see things like this and hope you do too.
One of the fascinating things about flowers is the intricate and detailed inner workings of the flower. Every species has a slightly and sometimes dramatically different way of attracting pollinators. It is sometimes difficult to see beyond the color...
Walking Arizona We were walking along the bank of large pond, when this black necked tern decided we had invaded his territory and began to put on a dramatic display of feathers and ruffles. Because of his coloration, he blends in well with the ground...
We like to think of ourselves as part of a genealogical research community, but what is genealogy and what is research? Sometimes we accept classifications without focussing on what the definitions of the terms used. When does a person become a genealogist?...
Genealogy's Star Sometimes I feel blind, deaf and dumb (even more than I am normally). This last week was the National Genealogical Society Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although Las Vegas is only a few hours away, we had prior commitments that prevented...
