Below on the left you see an obituary that appeared in the August 11, 2017 St. Louis Post Dispatch. Legacy  has an ObitMessenger  servi...

How accessible is your blog/website? Is the color/size/font of your text readable to everyone? Can someone click a button and have the text...

Saturday I checked my Ancestry We’re Related app and was told I had 0 celebrity matches. Here’s the chart of 40 celebrity matches I had...

 Do you have a document in Google Drive (such as a spreadsheet) you would like to embed into your blog or website? By doing so, whenever...

James Tanner at Genealogy's Star  has been discussing the future of genealogy in a series of posts on The Dawn of the Genealogical Infor...

MyHeritage announced they had a free Mac version of their Family Tree Builder database software, so I decided to download it and give it a ...

It had been awhile since I used Ancestry's "New Search" so since "Old Search" is going to disappear soon, I started ...

Google Reader disappears on Monday As they announced back in March  the Google Reader app will be retired on July 1st. At the time I said...

It took a few days, but The Old Reader finally managed to handle the overload on its server from Google Reader users seeking a new home. I ...

I've begun looking at various alternate RSS Feed Readers recommended by various Tech sites, such as Macgasm, LifeHacker, and CNET. Fee...

Five days ago I posted a simple survey, asking my readers how they followed the posts on my blog. 70% of the current votes are going tow...

CAPTCHA is an ancronym for C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part A Turing Test - named after...

I’ve uploaded parts of my genealogy database to a few different websites. If I am going to make the tree public, I’ve naturally always trimm...

Blogger Bill West at West in New England  asks how other genealogists would go about creating a time capsule  to be opened in 100 years. ...

There are occasionally discussions regarding whether or not a blogger should host their blog for free at Blogspot , Wordpress , etc - or buy...

Geniaus created The Tech-Savvy Genealogist Meme . She came up with 50 items.  I expanded the list to 80, and also reworded two of her entr...

No. 6. Pocket Computer, 4 inches in diameter, with Time, Calendar, and Compass cards. (Source: Fuller's complete and perpetual calen...

The below XKCD comic has led me (and others) to consider Password Security the past week.  The webcartoonist defends his math here , though...

Disclaimer : Back in June of 2009 I predicted, " Google Wave is Coming; It's Undertow will Claim at least One Victim ." My r...

In January of 2008 Charter Communications accidentally deleted thousands of email accounts.  In December of 2006 Google accidentally had del...