Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Carol
The Emory family of Centreville, Maryland must be in shock to find that their packrat ancestors kept
400 years of documents. Everything from slave records to more mundane receipts. It makes my paltry collection pale by comparison, but I think our records and documents have stood up pretty well considering.
I'm trying to estimate just what
is my oldest original document, and it might be a land record for Jim Yates from 1907 in Howell County, Missouri. Notice, I said original record. I have
copies of many records, including the pay voucher for Richard Osgathorpe for his Revolutionary War service.
My most prized record though, is a hand-written 1872 original letter by my 5th Great Grandfather, John Holmes. John must have been a genealogist at heart because his letter, a reply to a nephew in Mississippi who had informed him of his (John's) older brother Thomas' death the year before in that state is filled with names, dates, locations of his children living and dead.
What is your oldest record of
original documentation? 1600's, 1700's, or earlier?
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Carol
Well, maybe he doesn't read my mind (he might find it empty!), but Paul Salmon at Technically Easy seems to write about topics that I am just now exploring.
Hopefully, soon, I will have my two computers networked so that they can share files, along with some other things. I would really like to be able to write my blogs on either computer while having access to my photo files too. And wouldn't you know it, Paul wrote about that very subject today in his post "What is a NAS Device?".
As you might have guessed, it stands for network-attached storage. I have one external hard drive where I have quite a bit of my files backed up, including pictures. But, I don't want to plug and unplug it to use it on two computers. Getting a second external drive would be OK, but I would have the added work of making sure the files were the same on both drives. Tiresome at best.
If there's one thing a genealogist is rabid for, it is a good way to share and store photo files. I hope Paul will do a follow-up article if he buys a NAS for his photos. If he does, I will let you know. I happen to have two desktop computers, but some of you might have a laptop and a desktop, and this NAS device would be very handy for you too.
Do you have more than one computer?
Do you think having a NAS device would work better for you than what you are currently using?
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Posted on June 14th, 2008 by Carol
Be Back Soon!!
I am going to try to hook up the new computer today and it might be a few days until I get everything working the way I want. Any Entrecard droppers that come by, thanks for the drop and I will come drop on you ASAP when I get back online. My other blog Pentimento will be offline too, so bear with me during this transition, ok?
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