My Trails into the Past

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!   Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment for tonight. Our mission, should we decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to: 1)   What are your "Favorite" genealogy websites?  What ones do you have in your web browser "Bookmarks" or "Favorites" bar or listing? 2)  Please list them in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link to your work in a comment on this post. Here’s mine: I probably use the following websites for genealogy research at least every day : Ancestry.com FamilySearch: mostly the catalog and the wiki Google.com (keyword search, images, translate, maps, books) More often, I use: The Portal to Texas History, mostly the newspaper images Newspapers.com GenealogyBank.com Chronicling America FindAGrave Depending on what I’m trying to research, I’ll use the following:...

Today during the DearMyrtle "Mondays With Myrt" we got to talking about Toolboxes. I wanted to share a photo of the toolbox I made in OneNote and had a hard time figuring out a way to share. So I decided to write a blog post about it. I got the idea from Christine Sisko Svircev at the "OneNote for Genealogy" group on  Facebook . She posted a photo of how she created categories and sub-categories. It was colorful and that’s what attracted me to her post. I had watched Thomas MacEntee talk about genealogy toolboxes either at an in-person lecture or via a webinar. Having only bookmarks in your browser is just not practical and so hard to keep organized. Plus there was no place you could annotate what this website was all about! Enter OneNote.  I had been using OneNote off and on. I like the Notebook set-up with Dividers and Pages. It’s how I organized my paper genealogy binders. So when I first started with OneNote in my Office 2010 program, I set up Fam...