Monday, February 10, 2020

Attention CLL Students: A Thing or Two

One of the members of my class mentioned WikiTree.com last week.  One of the things you can do to spur interest in a particular family is to utilize this feature at WikiTree.  You can post the pedigree chart (this image, only your tree/not mine)!  to Facebook and various other places, if I remember correctly.  I have a few trees at this website but have gotten away from using it recently.  

Remember the stuff that I've been hinting at about re-freshing your family history data, your approach to genealogy, etc?  One of the things in my handouts has made a reference to "gamifying" your family history.  How is family history research like a game?  Well, here is one example of something I've learned over time:  the more you "play" with your data and view it in different ways, the more likely you are to notice something different or significant, something "special".  I invite you to try wikitree and other free programs/websites.  Having created a gedcom is basic to being able to do this, to test my theory (well, I'm sure that I'm not the first person to have discovered this trick (viewing your data in lots of different ways)!  


Your website tip for today is http://www.linkpendium.com/.  
This has nothing to do with the above information.
It's just for fun and hopefully will net you some clues!
 

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