Skip to main content

Interesting This Week

I come across all kinds of stuff on the internet and wanted a way to share what I find so I am starting a weekly blog post called Interesting This Week.  Each Sunday I will post the things I have come across this week that I think are worth sharing.  They may or may not be genealogy related. The first installment of Interesting This Week starts now!
Category : Genealogy

Wiki Tree is having a Source-A-Thon on October 1st through October 3rd (72-hour sourcing marathon)

Amy Johnson Crow's blog post How to Find Your Ancestor by Researching Other People

Organize Your Family History -- How I store my genealogy information

Category : Currently Reading

Everyone Brave is Forgiven -- I just started this book this week after finding it in the Genealogy Gems Book Club

Category : Printables

 Daily Docket I love using these when I feel overwhelmed on the weekend and don't really know where to begin my day.

Autumn/Fall printable blog tour -- Lots of goodies here to download and decorate your home.

Blog Planner Printable from Scattered Squirrel  -- I use a lot of her printables in my planner...I couldn't survive without them.


Category : Evernote 

 Project Planning with Evernote

Organize Your Family History -- How I'm using Evernote for genealogy

How to Create Shortcuts for Frequently Accessed Notes, Notebooks, and Searches -- Not new to me this week but I have had some questions about how to do this.

 Category : Miscellaneous

 Wunderlist  -- I have been looking for a to do list manager for some time.  I have tried different ones and different ways for managing my to do's.  Wunderlist is on my desktop, my phone and my ipad so my lists are always accessible and I can keep track of reoccurring tasks as well.

Screen shot of  my to do lists.  There is still a lot more to add...I'm getting there slowly.



















What interesting things have you found??

See you next week for more fun found around the web!











Labels

By
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Marine Casualty Card Database

By
While I was writing Top 10 Blog Posts for 2019 I discovered that my top post was US Marine Casualty Cards from 2014.  Wow!  {There is also an update to the original post here  where I show some more information that was sent to me.}  I went back to read the post and discovered that the links no longer work.  I did a little digging and found a link to the Casualty Card Database at the Marine Corps University website.  At this site you click on the war you want to search and download a searchable spreadsheet.  Once you locate your Marine you send an email to request the card.  There are also links to download information about what the codes mean on the cards. I also found that you can search the U.S. Marine Corps Casualty Index, 1940-1958 , at Ancestry.com.  It gives the casualty date, type, unit, and service number.  There is a link to go to another website from the Ancestry database but that link does not work. {I believe...
2 comments
Read more

Just a Little Brain Surgery

By
Going home today!  Thursday, August 23, 2018. Monday, August 21, 2018 I had brain surgery to hopefully fix the pain I have been having from the blood vessel wrapped around my Trigeminal nerve.  To read more about Trigeminal neuralgia click here .  The Trigeminal nerve is a nerve that runs from the brain stem to the face.  The procedure that I had done is called  microvascular decompression   So far so good...the pain seems to be gone. Morning of surgery for my MRI brain mapping. And my lovely incision.  There are about 13 staples in my head.  Thursday, August 23, 2018.  I am feeling okay.  There is not a lot of pain; mostly burning and itching from the start of healing. I am told that I cannot do much for 6 to 12 weeks (at first I was told about 2 weeks and a much smaller incision).  I guess this leaves more time for genealogy and crafting while I recover.  And lets face it...no housework for 12 weeks is wi...
Post a Comment
Read more

Searching in Evernote Part 2

By
In the first Searching in Evernote post you learned about Evernote's search syntax.  Using the same methods as in the last post you can also search dates.  You can search for notes created or updated on a specific day, 30 days ago, this month, last year, etc. The image below shows notes created last week using created:week-1 By using created:day or updated:day where day is replaced by any of the following day terms below will give you the notes you are looking for. Day Term Use with created:day or updated:day Date 20141215 or 20140407 Today day Yesterday day-1 30 days ago day-30 This week week Last week week-1 This month month Last month month-1 This year year Last year year-1 You can also search for notes by source by using the following: To Find Search Syntax Email source:mail.smtp Web page source:web.clip Mobile source:mobile.* Application source:app.* Delicious s...
Post a Comment
Read more