17 April 2007

Back in the Game

Well finally after a couple weeks of finding and reinstalling a new hard drive, operating system, drivers and all my software again I am up and running.

I just got in my last piece of software yesterday, the latest version of Family Tree Maker. Along with it because I ordered on Ancestry.com I not only got the software on sale, but I got a copy of GenSmart!!!!! I'm having so much fun playing with it, to help me organize my research and where to look next. I'm still learning it, but I'll do a post later telling you more.

Now I am going to get back to reentering information that I lost when my computers crashed.

Don't forget about my class in June. I hope to see some of you there.

12 April 2007

Digital Scrapbooking & Storybooking Class

Well fellow genealogist. Are you looking for a way to preserve the memories of your ancestors, but don't know where to start? I'm teaching a class in June at the North Idaho College, in Post Falls, ID. The classes will be June 6-June 20 on Wednesdays from 6:30-8:30 PM. I will be teaching about photo restorations, photo preservation, digital scrapbooking and storybooking. Come join me. The class is only $31.

Also I will be hold smaller, more basic classes on the digital scrapbooking and storybooking in my home later, but the office still isn't done.

In the future I am looking into teaching the digital storybooking online later on, so those of you who don't live near by here can still benifit from my classes.

Maybe I will see you in one of my classes!

Lost ComputerS!

Yes that's right. I didn't just loose one, but I lost both of my computers to two seperate incidents. Oh I thought I was going to die. This has been torture. About three weeks ago my main computer froze up. Done! Dead! Gone! I wanted to scream.

My main computer was exactly that, my main files, photos everything! Everything I do to make money and maintain our life revolves around this computer. My Heritage Makers stuff, blogging, photos, genealogy research (not only my families history which took two years to find, but two other families I'm working on), my checking account, menus, calendars, and so much more. Almost all of it is gone.

The old photos of ancestors are fine. Most of them I had backed up by putting them on my Heritage Makers account, but photos from the last couple months are gone. Then all of my fliers, brochures, labels and anything else I designed up myself for Heritage Makers are all gone! Genealogy was a stroke of luck. I had created a CD with a gedcom file of my family and the two other families I was working on to take with me to the Genealogy conference in March. So I have that stuff backed up, but I've still lost some of the other things like files of research that cousins sent me electronically. I'm not even sure of everything I lost of our families because I had so much!

I even lost programs that I bought and downloaded, but can't find the code anymore. Now I've got to buy them again. This time I'm not downloading the programs. I will be buying packages with the CD so I don't have this happen again.

This has been a big painful learning experience. You should always back things up! So now I have an external drive and I'll reformat an old hard drive to back everything up on a weekly basis. I can't afford this again. I am still trying to recover things, and somethings I may never recover. I know many of my databases I will just have to recreate.

Then to make maters worse. Easter weekend I had my laptop sitting on the desk, my daughter in my lap and a cup of coffee by my laptop. I wasn't paying attention and we were playing for a bit. My daughter leaned back and her head hit my laptop. There went computer number two. That weekend I was with out either computer. I thought I was going to really die then. I was on the phone with someone later and I was laughing about it. They couldn't believe I was laughing about it, but what can you do, if I didn't laugh I was certainly going to cry. Especially since the last incident was a stupid mistake on my part. So I spent the weekend in the basement helping hubby with my office. But I kept wondering what was going on with people I had freebie site business with online. If they thought I had just skipped out on them.

It's amazing the things we can do now because of computers. But it's also amazing how quickly it can all fall apart when computers are lost.

So fellow bloggers and genealogist, if you don't hear from me for just a bit longer, bare with me. I'm still trying to recover from this loss. I now can get back online and blog again, but recovering data, reentering data, reinstalling software, and everything involved with reinstating my computer is very time consuming. But when I get this behind me I will be back and running again.

01 April 2007

Who Is That?

Welcome to the April 2, 2007 edition of who is that?.

Once again it's that time. I only got one submission but it is an absolutely wonderful story to read.

family stories

Lakshmi presents Ode to an Octogenarian at Alchemy posted at Alchemy. This is a wonderful story about a woman's grand aunt who lived life the way she choose and didn't let others tell her how she "should" live her life, in a culture where women didn't make their presence known, but were instead the women of the home.

Once again another wonderful story that should be preserved. However you do it, storybooks, scrapbooks, journals, or blog, preserve your families heritage. If we don't preserve our heritage who will? History is one thing. There will always be someone to write about the moments that have an effect on our lives, but who will write your history. Will you be remembered long after you and your loved ones are gone. If you write it, someone will know it.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of
who is that?
using our
carnival submission form.
Past posts and future hosts can be found on our

blog carnival index page
.

Technorati tags:

, .



Followers

Twitter Followers

BlogCatalog