tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post6816314084407257468..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: A New Paradigm -- How to work with the large online genealogy programs: Part FiveJames Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-54324744431599159512015-10-31T19:20:51.254-07:002015-10-31T19:20:51.254-07:00James, I read your entire series. Thank you. I'...James, I read your entire series. Thank you. I've been perplexed at the topic of genealogy seminars and agree with your conclusions. I am not near to perfect, and my research has waffled around over the years. But I have been baffled by the snootiness of older family researchers who turn their noses up at the online search engines. I feel an urgency to keep up with technology and don't understand why someone would choose to ignore it. My husband is one of them. But I got to him on our last vacation. We went to the Acadian settlements in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. I had done a lot of online research and had downloaded his family tree into my iPhone via the ancestry app. We serendipitously stumbled upon an archealogical dig of an Acadian settlement. The names sounded familiar. A quick perusal in the app, using the very expensive Canadian cellular data package that I had purchased, confirmed that we were standing on the land that my husbands 9th great grandfather had settled, and then been expelled from by the British in 1755. A quick stop at the Port ROyal historical society found my husband's 10th cousin (We figured that out via ancestry.com) working at the info desk that day! My husband was in tears being so moved by this connection to history, citing his recently deceased mother as the one who led us to this find. I think it was technology. And I prefer spending my vacation time and money connecting to history in this way, rather than the years of library reseach I would have had to do in the past to get to this link. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07117466492413577202noreply@blogger.com