Family Tree Frog

  Alex and her bestie Loani showing off the quilt made for Caspar's birthday 1. I was happy to go back to ... after a Covid absence Face-to-face conferences, meetings, and workshops. 2. In 2022 I was particularly proud of writing ... as many of my 52Ancestorsin52week blog posts as I could. 36 in total. 3. A new software package or web application I embraced was ... I kept going with PowerPoint in terms of presentations and was very brave and did a presentation at a SAG hangout in March.  I had lots of egg on my face in terms of working out the sound but the SAG convenors were just lovely and very encouraging.  Onwards and upwards.   I also set up a Mastodon account for both myself and QFHS late in the year.   I played with the MyHeritage DeepStory tool and the AI Time Machine™.   (see photos above) I never knew my maternal grandmother as she died before I was born.  Many people find DeepStory a bit creepy but I found that it engaged my a...

  testing testing 123123123 this is the third blog or rather the third week of the genie life in lockdown blogging challenge I was really pleased to see Jill bull Ball take up the challenge and demonstrate her love of learning bye by trying out c Carmel's tips and tricks to aid with genealogy practice by dictating her first blog post. I have decided 2 to emulate her this week by dictating my blog post using speech to text In Word. So far so good. It is still early days for me and I'm not entirely comfortable with dictating. Particularly telling the machine punctuation marks! But by degrees, I'm getting there. (I've left in the typos so you can see how accurate it is or not.) So what have I achieved this week family history was wise? Not much I confess.    But I guess what I have been doing he's is creating memories. Having had my second Etsy (ha ha AZ) shot like late last week, I was able to babysit Frankie this week. We created lots of memories together...