I’ve been writing a lot about technology lately. \u00a0I do love it but it certainly is a pain when it glitches! \u00a0Last year I created a free website using Sidengo called www.GenealogyAtHeart.com. \u00a0I linked my blog posts to it and featured genealogical special offers, photos of recent research trips I’d taken and information for clients who were interested in contacting me. \u00a0In July, I received an email from Sidengo that in less than 3 weeks my account was going to be closed unless I moved to a paid option. \u00a0I was leaving town for a two week research trip the next day, had a client deadline I had to finish before I left and was returning to my teaching job three days after the research trip ended so I felt rushed into making a decision. \u00a0Hubby thought I should just pay up to make my life easier but I didn’t want to do that as I thought it was poor customer service to pressure folks into paying. \u00a0During my evenings while I was on my research trip I searched for alternatives. \u00a0I settled on another company but wasn’t really happy with it – I was only able to get one page so the website was a long scroll AND I couldn’t link to my blog posts so I had to list them which was cumbersome for readers.<\/p>\n
In September, the Association of Professional Genealogists had a webinar about WordPress. I had explored them in July but didn’t find the site intuitive enough for me to figure out how to quickly put together my webpages. \u00a0After watching the webinar I thought I’d give it another try and in just a few hours I had my webpages almost back to where it was from the beginning. \u00a0It’s officially live so I’ll continue to post my blogs on blogspot and then archive at genealogyatheart.com. \u00a0So, if you want to find an older post and you remember the month – you can look on blogger. \u00a0If you can’t remember when it was published but are looking for the topic – visit genealogyatheart.com\u00a0where I’ve tagged and archived by area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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