Follow Friday - The right thing at the right time.

This week I decided to sign up for Evernote. Since I have read that a lot of people use it, I signed up to see what it is all about.

To me it seems like it will be okay. So far I have just been playing around with it. It is nice that I can get the information from any computer I am at.

Then - this week I received the Family Tree Magazine. In it there is a complete article on using Evernote!

So the botton line is I must be doing the "right thing at the right time".

I would like to hear from some of you who use Evernote and how you are using it for your genealogy researching.

Follow Friday - A Must See Must Do

As you already know from previous posts from other bloggers, the Footnote Revoluntionary War records is free for just a week beginning yesterday.

Yesterday I headed over there and was fascinated with the information they had there. The Act of Congress of 1938 allowed for family to get a pension from their patriot.

Only thing - the family member - wife, patriot himself, or children had to prove when the patriot served in the Revolutionary War and under whom he served. That wsa a little difficult because 50 to 60 years later you had to come up with this information.

So I just checked out a name. The information found in these records is amazing. In one instance a lady said the patriot was her brother. When she was just 9 years of age she remembered someone coming to their house, taking her brother outside, talking for awhile, then her brother left with the man, never to return until the following summer.

Another did not know who the patriot served under, however, his two brothers who also served in the same unit, had already received pension dollars. They were able to link them and finally get some pension out of that.

Anyway - the stories in there are amazing. There is a filmstrip at the bottom and you can advance to the next page easily. Give it a try. You will be amazed at what you see here. Hurry, there are only a few days left for the free documents.

Follow Friday - The Happy Genealogist!

When I first started researching my family tree in 2007, I had not a clue what I was doing. It all started by downloading the My Heritage Family Tree Builder. It is a great program in which I have found many "matches" with other family researchers. What a thrill when a new cousin pops up who shares genealogy.

Finding on-line sites has been rewarding as well. Then about a year ago I found out there were a lot of Genealogy podcast's on You Tube. More learning to be done.

THEN...... I found out about blogging for genealogists via geneabloggers! A further thrill. With that came the idea of RSS feeds through Google Reader. Wow! What a huge source of information you can get automaticaly through your reader from all you bloggers. The amazing bits of tips and genealogical information is fantastic.

Thank you all for your incredible help with my genealogical researching. Every day I am thrilled with more tips.

I am a simple blogger that is continuing to learn every day thanks to you. In other words, I am a "Happy Genealogist"!