Photos and comments from Arizona and around the world
Another Yellow Rose? | Walking Arizona http://t.co/TpyldUpC James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) July 19, 2012 Another Yellow Rose? | Walking Arizona
Roses are forever | Walking Arizona http://t.co/Oe68o2gg James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) July 22, 2012 Roses are forever | Walking Arizona
You will have NFC in your future http://t.co/ga8Dn3sz James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) July 14, 2012 NFC technology will definitely be in your future, whether you like it or not. NFC or Near Field Communication is, quoting from Wikipedia: [A] set of standards...
Borrowing Library Books Online http://t.co/G3JG74Oe James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) November 08, 2012 For the past month or so we have been figuring out the intricacies of borrowing library books online. I have been checking out books from libraries since...
Stepping Off Into the Past -- Where do I start my search? http://t.co/oIcHlmdM James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) November 06, 2012 I have been concentrating on one of my lines and writing about aspects of the research in this mini-series but I have decided...
Shopping for genealogy online http://t.co/c479dZhc James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) November 23, 2012 Hmm. While the rest of you are out there standing in lines in Walmart or whatever, I am comfortably at home writing away on my computer. I find a huge...
Primary and Secondary Sources -- Continuing the discussion http://t.co/Yo2V3D5C James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) November 01, 2012 The concept of secondary versus primary sources is a tremendous oversimplification of the process of evaluating evidence and...
New Blog Posts from the FamilySearch Blog http://t.co/P4sQ4WAZ James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) November 01, 2012 Since my RSS Feed does not work for the FamilySearch Blog, I thought yours might be either, so here are the most recent offerings: BYU Class...
Primary and Secondary Sources -- A multiple part discussion http://t.co/ECWZyxx3 James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) October 31, 2012 In a recent blog post on Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, Blogger Harold Henderson raised an issue with a blog entitled,...
Reading Documents on an iPad, Kindle or similar device http://t.co/zv3RQqvk James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) September 13, 2012 I recently posted about my experience with checking out an online library book. Unfortunately, there are as yet few genealogically...
Evanescent Beauty http://t.co/o1nVtOW9 James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) September 04, 2012 These flowers bloom at night and last only until mid-day, one or two days a year. If you catch them while they are blooming they are spectacular, but if not, all...
More on Genealogy's Popularity Declining http://t.co/7FPWE2PD James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) October 29, 2012 Most of the comments received on my post concerning Google Trends were attempts to explain the apparent decline in Web searches about genealogical...
Stepping Off Into the Past -- Moving up a generation http://t.co/PNjE8Exx James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) October 27, 2012 You could do as some records I have seen and that is add the next generation automatically by calling them Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith...
Love Statue, Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, Scottsdale, Arizona USA http://t.co/1SAzMhb4 James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) October 27, 2012 Love Statue, Main Plaza, Scottsdale, Arizona USA in Arizona This Panorama shows the Love Statue in Scottsdale, Arizona....
I read it in the newspaper http://t.co/iWl3thqs James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) September 12, 2012 Researchers have a tendency to look for records in or around the place were the ancestor was born, lived or died. But sometimes even ordinary people were...
iGoogle http://t.co/XktLPdSF James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) August 30, 2012 iGoogle
More about Windows 8, the Microsoft Surface and etc. http://t.co/Wb8Vn0Cx James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) October 27, 2012 A few days ago, I wrote a short piece about the introduction of the new Apple products and made the observation that the intro was...
Introduction to Who Owns the Genealogy Companies Revisited http://t.co/LBgdToBd James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) December 01, 2012 From time to time I address the issue of who owns the genealogy companies. What I mean is who owns the really big genealogy...
Odds and Ends and Such http://t.co/efpv20k1 James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) October 26, 2012 Just a few comments about things too short to do a whole blog post: TechTips, for which I am a contributor, has moved from its status in outer darkness, to the...
The Search Engine is the Core of the Program http://t.co/MQChVri6 James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) August 27, 2012 The Internet is driven by search engines. Programs such as Google, Bing, and similar programs easily dominate all other programs. Despite...
Aloes http://t.co/p9Y0BMP5 James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) October 23, 2012 We first got interested in the aloes because of the medicinal qualities of the juice from the thick leaves of the plant. It is good for burns and especially sunburns. But it smells...
Euphorbia Revisited http://t.co/L46HS6O7 James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) October 23, 2012 OK, so these are really weird euphorbia. The first photo is the open pod. The second photo is what they look like before they open. I am not sure if this can be characterized...
Cholla Bloom http://t.co/peU4PdyQDT James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) June 21, 2013
Pineapple Upside-down Cake | Family Heritage Recipes http://t.co/NvVm3Ulj James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) August 13, 2012 Pineapple Upside-down Cake | Family Heritage Recipes
Spring Poppies http://t.co/N0EMXfHf James Tanner (@Genealogysstar) October 19, 2012 Recent rains in October sometimes portend a bounteous crop of wildflowers in the Spring. If it rains enough in October, there will be flowers, if not, no flowers (or very...
