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Thursday, June 2, 2011

All is calm, all is quiet

I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog lately. Behind the scenes, I’ve been steadily plodding away.

  • I have now had two cousins who found me through my online tree at www.twigsofyore.com and have been trying to fill in a bit of detail about their branches. I still have more conversations to have with them.
  • I’ve been sending off contact invitations to other 23andMe members. I find that I get 1-2 responses per batch of 5 invitations. We exchange a few messages but so far I have not worked out my connection with anyone. One day it will happen.
  • I’m taking 2 courses of genealogy study at the moment and have fallen a little behind in the coursework due to a few family commitments that came up.

So between data entry, writing to other researchers and writing up the weekly assignment answers I’ve been feeling all written out. Actually, I started writing any number of blog posts but never quite had the energy to finish them.

Subjects that I only got half way through writing about include:

  • How my grandmother knew all the questions on a particular topic, when we played Trivial Pursuit with her.
  • Tips for making great cousin connections on Ancestry.
  • My life in the cloud and across the galaxy – how I’ve set up my new Galaxy tab with particular reference to cloud computing services.
  • School – then and now.

Any preferences for which should I finish writing first?

4 comments:

  1. Susan (Nolichucky Roots)June 3, 2011 at 2:41 AM

    Grandma and Trivial Pursuit, please!

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  2. They all sound great. The one I *need* most is probably 'Tips for making great cousin connections on Ancestry'. Most of my connections have been via Rootsweb's WorldConnect, LostCousins, CuriousFox, or my own Web site.

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  3. I've half written this post any number of times. I'll have to make sure I finish it.

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