GENEALOGICAL ARTICLES

Ancestry Magazine Tech Columns - columns for Ancestry Magazine [link]

RootsWorks - 79 articles on generic tools for genealogy, published in the Ancestry Daily News [link]

Other genealogy articles [link]

Ancestry Magazine Technology Columns

Data Obsolescence (2005 Ancestry vol 23 No 1). You can't read that file anymore.
Hardware Obsolescence. You can't read that disk anymore.
Land Speculation. Visiting your ancestor's land online.
Cooperation and Community: Building a Useful Beast. Working together to help people.
Voice over IP. Staying connected without buying a phone line.
Blogs, Wiki's, and Widgets. What they heck are they, and what's the difference? (2005 ancestry vol 23 no 6)
Connections - Census. A different way of looking at the census.(2006 Ancestry vol 24 no 1)
Context - American Roads. A different way of looking at highways.
Connections - You can't go back in time.
Connections - geo-coding photos.

A few articles that I've written on genealogical topics.

GENTECH Data Merging Project, Part 1 (Genealogical Computing 1995)
GENTECH Data Merging Project, Part 2 (Genealogical Computing 1996)
Genealogical Data Merging Survey (Genealogical Computing 1998)
You and the GENTECH Genealogical Data Model (Everton's Genealogical Helper 2001)
Is GEDCOM Dead? (Genealogical Computing 2000)
Palmtops for Genealogists (APG Quarterly 2000)
Navigating by ManMade Stars: Finding the Cemetery with GPS (Genealogical Computing 2003)
The New OneWorldTree (2004 Ancestry Vol 22 No 4)
Finding the Cemetery Redux: Using Google Maps to find your family's earthly remains

RootsWorks - Using Generic Computing Tools for Family History
This series published in the Ancestry Daily News

31 Aug 2000 - Browser Plug-Ins
14 Sep 2000 - GEDCOM In and Out
05 Oct 2000 - Email Organization
18 Oct 2000 - Instant Messaging
09 Nov 2000 - Mail Bag
07 Dec 2000 - Scanners
20 Dec 2000 - Graphic File Formats
Spreadsheets[Supporting Pages]
- 07 Mar 2001 - Spreadsheet Basics
- 29 Mar 2001 - Spreadsheets -- Making Copies
- #10 - 09 May 2001 - Spreadsheets -- Copy Formulas and Changing Cell Formats
- 12 Jun 2001 - Spreadsheets -- Sorting It Out
- 26 Jun 2001 - Spreadsheets -- Mapping
- 19 Jul 2001 - Spreadsheets -- Graphics
- 07 Aug 2001 - Spreadsheets -- Census
- 26 May 2004 - I received this email with an update.
  
  Beau, Someone just notified me of an article you wrote in wich you reference my website:
  FYI the website [http://members.iquest.net/~martlet6/Genealogy/Tenn/tp2.htm ]
  has relocated to www.glenns-world.com
  --- Glenn D. Littrell
Travel
- 23 Aug 2001 - Travel Part I : GPS
- 11 Sept 2001 - Travel Part 2: Travel Software
- 19 Sept 2001 - Travel Part 3: Using Travel Software and GPS
07 Nov 2001 - Mail Merging Inquiry Letters with Word
PDA 2001 - Review of Personal Digital Assistants [supporting pages]
- 27 Dec 2001 - Hardware
- #20 - 18 Jan 2002 - Software
- 19 Feb 2002 - Genealogy Software
- 10 April 2002 - The Kitchen Sink
Home Networks
- 06 Jun 2002 - Basic Home Networks
- 27 Jun 2002 - Wireless Home Networks
Upgrades
- 17 Jul 2002 - Hardware Upgrades
- 15 Aug 2002 - Operating System Upgrades, part 1
- 22 Aug 2002 - Operating System Upgrades, part 2
- 05 Sept 2002 - Software Upgrades
07 Nov 2002 - Online Technical Support
#30 - 21 Nov 2002 - Scanners
Links were left out of the text of this article. The links are here.
- ZDNet Reviews ***
  http://www.zdnet.com/special/filters/sc/scanner////
  Great product evaluations, tips, and explanations for beginners.

12 Dec 2002 - Graphics File Formats 2002
09 Jan 2003 - USB
23 Jan 2003 - OCR
06 Feb 2003 - Digital Camera Numbers [Supporting Pages]
20 Feb 2003 - Digital Camera Memory, Genealogy
13 Mar 2003 - Electronic Organization [Supporting Pages]
02 Apr 2003 - Antivirus Software [Supporting Pages]
PDA 2003 [Supporting Pages]
- 24 Apr 2003 - Hardware
- 29 May 2003 - Software
- #40 - 05 Jun 2003 - Genealogy Software
- 19 Jun 2003 - 12 things you can do with a PDA that you can't do with any other computer
10 Jul 2003 - Printer Hardware [Supporting Pages]
31 Jul 2003 - Beyond Printing
14 Aug 2003 - Migration Maps [Supporting Pages]
04 Sept 2003 - Removable Media [Supporting Pages]
25 Sept 2003 - Avoiding Buyer's Remorse [Supporting Pages]
09 Oct 2003 - Taking Panoramic Photos [Supporting Pages]
23 Oct 2003 - Scanning from Newspaper [Supporting Pages]
Basic Photography

06 Nov 2003 - Basic Photography, Part I Most Common Mistakes by Beginner Photographers [Supporting Pages]
#50 - 19 Nov 2003 - Basic Photography, Part II Making Family Photos into Artwork [Supporting Pages]
04 Dec 2003 - Basic Photography, Part III Using the Scanner to Restore the Photo [Supporting Pages]
18 Dec 2003 - Basic Photography, Part IV When the Scanner Won't Do It - Photoshop Elements [Supporting Pages]

08 Jan 2004 - When a Spreadsheet Won't Do It - Databasics [Supporting Pages]
29 Jan 2004 - GEDCOM Basics [Supporting Pages]
17 Feb 2004 - Scanning Negatives and Slides [Supporting Pages]
04 Mar 2004 - Scanning Negatives and Slides, Part 2 [Supporting Pages]
23 Mar 2004 - Camera Phones [Supporting Pages]
15 Apr 2004 - Collages [Supporting Pages]
29 Apr 2004 - Spyware
#60 - 13 May 2004 - Power Points/Slide Shows for Reunions [Supporting Pages]
27 May 2004 - Getting the Big Picture: Printing big trees
24 Jun 2004 - Personal Reference Boundary (PCs & PDAs)
08 Jul 2004 - DNA & Family Trees - you can't get a tree from a test
22 Jul 2004 - OCR
05 Aug 2004 - GenSmarts & Task Management
31 Aug 2004 - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Genealogists
PDA 2005 [Supporting Pages]

10 Jun 2004 - Accessories
14 Oct 2004 - Hardware
04 Nov 2004 - Software
#70 - 18 Nov 2004 - Genealogy Software
02 Dec 2004 - Kitchen Sink

18 Jan 2005 - Genealogy Music
18 Feb 2005 Phishing
Digital Video
- 22 Mar 2005 - Introduction
- 07 Apr 2005 - The Catalog
- 13 May 2005 - Transferring VHS
- 17 Aug 2005 - Transferring Film
- 23 Jun 2005 - Transferring 8MM Tape
- 08 Sept 2005 - Burning the DVD
The excel worksheet containing examples from the articles.
- View as a web page (IE):
- Formats.
- Making Copies.
Download the worksheet (right click for the browser menu).

The word documents for inquiry letters - (right click to download).
- Main document - INQUIRYLTR.DOC.
- Data source - INQDATA.DOC
Census Comparison
- The Census Comparison - Littrell worksheet (right click to download) [Added 11 July 2001]
- An HTML version of the Census Comparison. You can't see the formulas, but you can see the format. [Added 29 Jan 2002]
Age Graph
- The AgeGraph worksheet (right click to download). This worksheet contains an example of graphing and sorting information about ancestors. It also features Xeno's Comb sort, where the data can be sorted by family relationships. [Added 5 August]
- An HTML version of the same worksheet. It has no formulas, but it shows you the format. [Added 29 Jan 2002]

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