Liv's Tree House

So one of my favorite genealogy resources is Dick Eastman's Online Genealogical Newsletter .  A friend introduced me to it when I become the director in Virginia, and I've followed every post since.  It's not only a great genealogical resource but a great technology resource as he generally writes several posts per day and the all focus on genealogy or technology related subjects and what the latest and greatest things happening are. Today he had a particularly interesting post that I thought I would share, which he snagged from Google's Public Policy Blog entitled " Plan Your Digital After-life with Interactive Account Manager ". Basically Google has rolled out a feature called "Inactive Account Manager", where you can select what happens to your account after X amount of inactivity.  You can have it deleted or send specific parts of your account to different email addresses, so it gives you complete control. Honestly, I think it's awesome, I...

So I came back from a week off and it was a difficult week of vacationing.  You probably think that I'm kidding, but it was super frustrating  I came back from my amazing RootsTech experience armed with all sorts of new resources for doing my family history work, and I didn't have a chance to play with them for a week and a half.  The time with family was great, and I am glad I went, but I'm really excited to be back and digging into all that I learned. The real problem is that I got back from vacation and FamilySearch decided to go ahead and release a Beta version of their new "enhanced" site while I was gone.  I've been dying to witness it ever since the Genealogy Conference I attended in early March where Dennis Brimhall introduced the new enhancements via a demo video.  So with all of these new products, my mind is on fire, and I can't decide where to focus my efforts, so I can't report in full on any of it, but I've been playing around with t...