Just when I begin to make progress on learning how to use my computer for something beyond a word processor, my system goes capute!\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I called my provider and got these discouraging words:\u00a0 “We are experiencing internet difficulties in your area.\u00a0 Sorry for any inconvenience.”<\/p>\n
Well, to chronicle my enhanced computer skills, I…<\/p>\n
The purpose of this blow-by-blow description is to\u00a0create a Perils of Pauline picture–for sympathy and for appreciation of the super-human effort<\/strong> I expend for each and every genealogy event I participate in.\u00a0<\/p>\n You don’t get the same speech I gave last week.\u00a0 You get a whole new pitch.\u00a0 You don’t get the worn-out examples from past genealogy sharings.\u00a0 You get my current research challenges.\u00a0 And you get the resources I use to resolve these hard-to-find ancestors–those ancestors hunted for 20 or more years by others.<\/p>\n Let me share something I learned by teaching genealogy classes for more years than I want to count–I used to create hypothetical research problems with real documents and made up ancestors.\u00a0 No one cared.\u00a0 My class attendees were unmoved and often bored by someone else’s ancestors. They wanted to learn about their own\u00a0family members.\u00a0 So I have changed my ways–<\/p>\n As examples in my current genealogy class, I looked up the surnames of my class members–with resounding<\/span> success.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0One class member was so excited he almost shook. “I don’t want to\u00a0attend any more meetings.,” he said.\u00a0 “I want to go right home and start looking up my names myself!”\u00a0<\/p>\n “Hooray”, I said under my breath.\u00a0 “At last, this is the key to action–their own ancestors.”<\/p>\n Now, I can’t guarantee that your own ancestors appear in the\u00a0illustrations\u00a0I plan to use at the Loveland Colorado Family History Expo.\u00a0 What you can expect is something challenging based on real documents and real ancestors and real solutions.\u00a0 Drafted with attendees from Colorado and surrounding places in mind–You just might find your own ancestor on the screen.\u00a0 Many persons who attend my genealogy sessions do.\u00a0 And if your surname pops up on the screen, I am happy to make you a copy of the record when I get home.<\/p>\n Do you have any idea how many stopped pedigrees have been jump-started in my sessions?<\/p>\n So come and get your “EASY Button.”\u00a0 I have prepared one just for you.\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/arleneeakle.com<\/a><\/p>\n PS\u00a0 Register early at http:\/\/www.fhexpos.com<\/a>\u00a0 and access the syllabus handouts–a jumpstart ahead of everybody else at the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just when I begin to make progress on learning how to use my computer for something beyond a word processor, my system goes capute!\u00a0 So I called my provider and got these discouraging words:\u00a0 “We are experiencing internet difficulties in … Continue reading \n