Tuesday, February 7, 2012
My first Tweet
I skipped Social-Media Sunday-Monday; today is Twitter Tuesday. Having discovered that a descendant of Napoleon belongs to YDNA haplogroup E1b1b, along with Barack Obama, Einstein, the Wright brothers, Hitler, and eight of the twelve participants in the Teater-Teter surname project, I decided the news deserved to be my first tweet to my follower. Whee!
Saturday, February 4, 2012
post-RootsTech post
Ok, I'm motivated to try this blog thing one more time. Surname Saturday will happen another day; today is Software Saturday.
Restoring several years' of genealogy research that went out the window on a stolen computer has been difficult. I recovered an old Excel file from SkyDrive, of Kressers from Vorarlberg Austria, and my 1999 submission to the Pedigree Resource File from CD 5, of compiled Teter descendants after my first research trip to Ross County and Union County Ohio. Both of these datasets were outdated and missing more recent information, only some of which had been uploaded to the new FamilySearch. One by one updating from Legacy worked well for the Kressers but progressed too slowly with the Teters.
I checked the list of partner products for NFS; the free utility Get My Ancestors looked promising. After installation I chose my most distant Teter ancestor, Captain Samuel, and asked for nine generations of his descendants. Get My Ancestors actually created a PAF file of six generations, which is appropriate for the separation between living and dead.
Since Legacy can import a PAF file directly, I skipped the GEDCOM step. A Potential Problems report and 312 tagged records later, I'm grateful for the efficiency of Get My Ancestors and Legacy. On to the cleanup (and backup)!
Restoring several years' of genealogy research that went out the window on a stolen computer has been difficult. I recovered an old Excel file from SkyDrive, of Kressers from Vorarlberg Austria, and my 1999 submission to the Pedigree Resource File from CD 5, of compiled Teter descendants after my first research trip to Ross County and Union County Ohio. Both of these datasets were outdated and missing more recent information, only some of which had been uploaded to the new FamilySearch. One by one updating from Legacy worked well for the Kressers but progressed too slowly with the Teters.
I checked the list of partner products for NFS; the free utility Get My Ancestors looked promising. After installation I chose my most distant Teter ancestor, Captain Samuel, and asked for nine generations of his descendants. Get My Ancestors actually created a PAF file of six generations, which is appropriate for the separation between living and dead.
Since Legacy can import a PAF file directly, I skipped the GEDCOM step. A Potential Problems report and 312 tagged records later, I'm grateful for the efficiency of Get My Ancestors and Legacy. On to the cleanup (and backup)!
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