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Registration now open for our next three webinars

Posted by Geoff Rasmussen on October 6, 2010 at 8:11am

To celebrate Family History Month we are announcing our next three webinars:

Blogging for Beginners with DearMYRTLE on Wednesday, October 20, 2010
New Family History Technology with Paul Larsen on Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Organize, Share, and Publish Your Digital Photos with Heritage Collector Suite with Marlo Schuldt on Wednesday, November 3

Join one or join all three! Registration for every webinar is free and open to anyone. Register at www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/webinars.asp.

Technology Tip - make your digital camera wireless with Eye-Fi

Posted by Geoff Rasmussen on January 12, 2010 at 9:32am

That's it. I will never be surprised by technology again. When I hear about some new gadget or technology idea - I will no longer think, "yah right, maybe in the future." The future is here.LIke most genealogists, I like taking pictures - pictures of the family, trees, and cemeteries. When I read about Eye-Fi last night, not only did I realize that the future was here, but I also knew that taking pictures would never be the same.Eye-Fi makes your digital camera go wireless. As soon as you snap y

Internet Archives - audio, video, texts & more!

Posted by tami osmer glatz on December 24, 2009 at 4:01pm

It’s Christmas eve day, and its snowing here in Dallas, so everyone is just huddled indoors trying to stay warm, and enjoying being in the company of family... which always sets me to thinking about my ancestors and genealogy, of course.Since the presents are all wrapped, and its just a countdown to Santa, I’ll go ahead and write about another site for finding family stories online, and we’ll call it my Christmas present to you :)Internet Archive, at http://www.archive.org is a very large, onlin

Ever heard of Creative Genealogy?

Posted by Michelina Hall on September 30, 2009 at 8:00am

We all love genealogy,this is why we are here. I too have done extensive research to find my ancestors and go as back in time as possible.I love genealogy so much that I decided to make it fun for my now still little children so that they would love it too.Then I realized that when you make genealogy something more visual than just a pedigree chart, you get interest from any kind of person.If you would like an idea of what I mean by "Creative Genealogy", you can give a look at this blog post:Cre

Restoring old photographs uncovered during genealogy research

Posted by Nick Roach on September 11, 2009 at 3:30am

While carrying out genealogy research you will obviously encounter a number of old photographs, some of which will have been preserved and looked after extremely well, others may not have let the years treat them so well.So how do you go about restoring these images? Well, there are a number of software packages out there to have a go yourself, the best in my opinion being Adobe Photoshop however there are a number of other titles, some of which are freeware and require no payment nor subscripti

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