Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 9 June 2016.<\/p>\n
Maybe due to the recent passing of Tropical Storm Colin through my area my thoughts are fairly random today! Several days of heavy rain and wind is pushing me to get outside and do some cleanup yard work so this will be brief!<\/p>\n
First up – did you know that Family Tree Maker is back. \u00a0They have a newsletter that will keep you updated as to when they are going to start synching again with Ancestry.com. \u00a0If you’re a faithful reader you know I gave up on them about two years ago but now I’m thinking that maybe the problem was that I had the 2012 version and when they moved to the 2014 version it interfered with the synch. Neither FTM or Ancestry ever asked me what version I was using when I repeatedly called which says a lot about their customer support. \u00a0Anyway, the software is now owned by mackiev which used to make really good products, like Kidspics that my own children loved back in the day. \u00a0 For $29.95 they’ll sell you their latest version of FTM at a discount if you had a previous one and I may do that as another backup. \u00a0To sign up for their newsletter click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Update to my last three blogs about frugality in genealogy – Should have definitely mentioned Linkedin and Facebook. \u00a0I use both and they are free! \u00a0Did you know that there are over 8,000 genealogy sites on Facebook?! \u00a0To view the list of them click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two more reason to DO IT NOW! – Had a colleague from my educational job thank me for giving her the “Mean Momma” look when she told me two weeks ago that she had 14 boxes of family documents stored in an unair conditioned shed near a major river that floods. \u00a0I told her to move them in her house pronto but she insisted that she was going to spend the summer going through the boxes, one a week. \u00a0She had gone through 3 of the boxes when the flood advisory hit the area and she wasted no time in getting the boxes relocated in her home. \u00a0With the storm, she had time to go through them and found some wonderful genealogical stories that I’m encouraging her to write about and publish. \u00a0She’s an awesome writer so in the near future, look for a guest blog from her.<\/p>\n Another colleague asked me about how to go about collecting family history information. \u00a0I pointed her to my website that houses all of my blogs (www.genealogyatheart.com<\/a>) and strongly encouraged her to talk with her parents when she went home for Memorial Day weekend. \u00a0When she returned the following Tuesday she told me that she relaxed all weekend and never got around to talking to her parents about the past. \u00a0Five days later one of her parents had a stroke and has lost the ability to speak. \u00a0Understandably, she is devastated on so many levels. \u00a0If that isn’t a wake up call for all of us, I don’t know what is! \u00a0Don’t delay – send that email, make that phone call, take the older relative to lunch and get the info today!<\/p>\n Those are my three random thoughts for the day – got to go get on the garden gloves and start picking up Spanish moss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 9 June 2016. 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