{"id":362,"date":"2013-05-30T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norsky.net\/TerisBlog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2013-06-06T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:08:05","slug":"some-take-aways-from-a-high-definition-genealogist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Some Take-Aways from a High-Definition Genealogist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/norsky.net\/TerisBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/053013_1543_SomeTakeAwa1.png\" align=\"right\" \/>The High-Definition Genealogist, Thomas MacEntee, presented a one-day seminar at the Denver Public Library over the weekend. I enjoyed his talks and came home with some good ideas to pursue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work to become less isolated by pursuing more genealogy networking opportunities. I plan to check out a site he suggested called GenealogyWise at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogywise.com\">http:\/\/www.genealogywise.com<\/a>. I am not a Facebook user, and Thomas says this could be a better alternative for a genealogist,<\/li>\n<li>Clean up my bookmarks and add some useful ones like Cyndi&#8217;s List of Birthdate Calendars &amp; Calculators at <a href=\"http:\/\/cyndislist.com\/births.htm\">http:\/\/cyndislist.com\/births.htm#Birthdate<\/a> and Wolfram-Alpha at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\">http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com<\/a> for historical money and weather,<\/li>\n<li>Renew my efforts to track my research electronically. I am guilty of maintaining paper research logs that date back over thirty years. I need set up some spreadsheets and to make better use of the task feature in <em>The Master Genealogist<\/em> software,<\/li>\n<li>Decide whether and when to share my information on compiled trees at WikiTree (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikitree.com\">http:\/\/www.wikitree.com<\/a>) or Family Search, and<\/li>\n<li>Document my goals and results. I like doing the research, but I tend to be lazy about writing up my results. I prepare and distribute a character sketch for one ancestor every Christmas, but I could do more. My husband\/tech advisor has some good ideas for writing topics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always when I attend a seminar, I find the speaker&#8217;s enthusiasm infectious. I want to do all five of these things today! Of course I cannot do that because I am elbow-deep in preparing for a genealogy trip to Norway. So how long can I maintain this energy? We will know in July when I get back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High-Definition Genealogist, Thomas MacEntee, presented a one-day seminar at the Denver Public Library over the weekend. I enjoyed his talks and came home with some good ideas to pursue: Work to become less isolated by pursuing more genealogy networking opportunities. I plan to check out a site he suggested called GenealogyWise at http:\/\/www.genealogywise.com. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}