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Excerpts or full posts?

March 6, 2014 By Janine Adams 4 Comments

newpollWhen I started Organize Your Family History in 2012, the home page contained full posts, four to a screen. Without clicking, you could read the four most recent blog posts. You could click back, one screen at a time, and read four posts at a time.

Last September, I changed it to post excerpts. When you land on the home page, you can see the first paragraph of the six most recent posts, but you have to click on the header of each one to read the whole post.

I’ve been thinking about it and I can’t decide which is better, excerpts or full posts. So I thought I’d ask you, the readers, to weigh in. I created a simple poll and I’m hoping you’ll take a second to let me know your preference.

 

Thanks in advance expressing your opinion!

The majority of those expressing an opinion favored full posts, so I’ve changed the settings. Thank you!

Filed Under: General, Reflections Tagged With: this blog

Join my new mailing list!

February 27, 2014 By Janine Adams Leave a Comment

jointhelistI’ve just created an Organize Your Family History mailing list and I hope you’ll join it! Just click on the Mailing List tab on the black navigation bar at the top of this page and give me your name and email address. On the last day of each month, I’ll send out an email with the prior month’s blog posts. So if you’ve missed a post, you’ll get it in your inbox in one tidy package. I’ll also use the list to let you know when I’ve added new products, services, or free printables to the site.

Just click above or click right here to sign up.

Filed Under: Excitement, General

Do you know The Story Trek?

February 14, 2014 By Janine Adams Leave a Comment

STRTK_LargeI have to admit I’d never heard of the television show The Story Trek before I attended the RootsTech conference. The host of the show, Todd Hansen, was one of the keynote speakers and he inspired us with the message that everyone  (and he means everyone) has an interesting story to tell.

On The Story Trek, Hansen goes door to door with a small television crew in a randomly selected city and neighborhood and asks whoever answers the door to tell his or her story for the television camera. Hansen is clearly gifted at extracting stories from people and the show is riveting. We saw excerpts during his enjoyable keynote (which you can watch here; it starts at the five-minute mark). That led me to locate full episodes of the show online. You can watch them on the BYUtv website or download the BYUtv app.

Two thumbs up from me. Enjoy!

Filed Under: Excitement, General Tagged With: resources, RootsTech, stories, The Story Trek, Todd Hansen

Enjoy RootsTech from home

February 7, 2014 By Janine Adams Leave a Comment

rootstechlogoI’m in Salt Lake City at RootsTech 2014, a fantastic conference. My brain practically hurts from all the learning. And being around thousands of fellow genealogy enthusiasts is really energizing.

At the opening keynote, this lovely video debuted. I’ve enjoyed watching it since, and think you might like it too.

If you weren’t able to come, you can still benefit from some of the learning opportunities. Some of the sessions will be live streamed. Check out the live streaming schedule and perhaps you’ll be able to schedule some time today and tomorrow to watch live. You can read session descriptions first, so that you can see whether the streamed sessions will be of interest to you. To watch live, just go to the RootsTech homepage. Streaming videos are right there.

Some of the presentations will be archived. You’ll be able to find them here. Over at the RootsTech YouTube channel, you can watch interviews with various luminaries in the world of genealogy.

This year’s conference is large, but extremely well organized so it’s not overwhelming. Next year’s will be super-sized, since it’s being held Federation of Genealogical Societies conference. Mark your calendars for February 12 to 14, 2015.

Filed Under: Excitement, General, Technology Tagged With: resources, RootsTech, technology

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I'm Janine Adams, a professional organizer and a genealogy enthusiast. I love doing family history research, but I find it's very easy for me to get overwhelmed and not know where to turn next. So I'm working hard to stay organized and feel in control as I grow my family tree.

In this blog, I share my discoveries and explorations, along with my organizing challenges (and solutions). I hope by sharing what I learn along the way I'll be able to help you stay focused and have fun while you do your research, too.

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