a family history blog
So each week I have been working on cleaning up my citations to EE standards and for whichever person I complete this for, that is the person I post about. Well, I got sidetracked this week. I started going through my “Genealogy_Media” folder, which is the folder in which I store all the digital photos … Read more
Love, Your daughter!
Why should I care about GEDCOM?
What is GEDCOM? The long and short of it is…a standard to transfer data between genealogy programs. Sure, some genealogy software packages have added support for importing directly from another program’s files. But not all. And not always as successfully as one might like.
Mary Hunter was born on 31 Dec 1835 in Langdale End, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.[1],[2] note: While her grave marker indicates Mary’s birth was 31 Dec 1836, it is likely that her actual birth date was 31 Dec 1835. The baptismal record from Wykeham Parish gives her baptismal date as 12 Jan 1836, therefore her birth would have been prior to that date, so it could not have been Dec of 1836.
It was over 2 years ago now, in January 2014, that Amy Johnson Crow posted the “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” challenge to her blog. Many genealogy bloggers took her up on the challenge and continued it through 2015 and some still continue it today.
I will be starting that challenge now that I actually started a blog.