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The Family Curator Meets Lisa Louise Cooke for a Chat About Blogging, Technology, and Caring for Your Family Treasures

By Denise May Levenick | July 31, 2009 |

Lisa Louise Cooke makes it look so easy. This week, The Family Curator is honored to be the guest of popular podcast host Lisa Louise Cooke in Episode 39 of Family History: Genealogy Made Easy, recorded last month at the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree in Burbank. Lisa is the … [Read more...]

Tech Tuesday and Setting up a Genealogy Photo Workflow, Part 2

By Denise May Levenick | July 29, 2009 |

Last week in this column, I wrote about the scanning procedure in Setting Up a Genealogy Photo Workflow, Part 1. This week, we tackle Part 2, where we move the photographs to a photo organizer/editor. After scanning my photographs and storing the images on my external MyBook hard drive (Western … [Read more...]

When It’s Not So Dreadful to be Talked About

By Denise May Levenick | July 27, 2009 |

My friend, Penny Dreadful, returned this afternoon from a weekend out-of-town and dropped by all a-twitter to see me. It seems that Penny overheard our mutual friend footnoteMaven talking with broadcaster Lisa Louise Cooke about fM’s popular magazine, Shades of the Departed, the very … [Read more...]

Tech Tuesday – Setting Up a Genealogy Photo Workflow, Part 1

By Denise May Levenick | July 21, 2009 |

Professional photographers call it a “workflow',” as a mom I just called it a “routine.” It’s the standard order of doing things that results in Getting Things Done. Lay out the school clothes, tuck them in bed, read a story, turn out the light, go to sleep. It just … [Read more...]

Happy Blogoversary to Me!

By Denise May Levenick | July 16, 2009 |

The 2nd Anniversary of The Family Curator came . . . fireworks exploded in the night sky . . . and went. The date is purposefully shared with two other auspicious anniversaries -- national independence and Henry David Thoreau's personal independence -- yet, this year the Family Curator was … [Read more...]

Tech Tuesday: Easy Photo Tagging “Facebook Style”

By Denise May Levenick | July 13, 2009 |

Have you ever wanted to tag your genealogy or family photos “Facebook style” to identify people in a group photo? Or maybe you just wanted to add balloon captions to your son’s prom picture. A recent listener of The Genealogy Guys podcast asked about software with this feature, and reminded me that … [Read more...]

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