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The End of GenSoftReviews - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Jun 2023
Everything has its time. And the time for GenSoftReviews is up. GenSoftReviews is a site that was at www.gensoftreviews.com that I ran from 2008 until today, to allow users to come and review their genealogy software. They could rate the software from 1 to 5 stars and leave a textual review with a suggestion ...
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Ancestral Loops - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Jun 2023
jandrea: Well it is a recursive procedure. The problem is that if you have loops, then the recursive procedure is infinite. So you have to figure out how to stop. The normal stopping method in a recursive procedure is to mark a node (person) as "visited" once they've been checked so that you don't process them ...
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Scanning 4 Binders of Emails - Blog entry by lkessler - 19 Mar 2023
Part of the work of genealogists in this digital age is to scan their old physical material. I’ve got many boxes in the closet and basement as well as binders in my shelves that still need to be gone through and digitized. You can only do this one piece at a time, so it’s a manner of picking a project and ...
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Replacing My Photo Management/Organizing Tools - Blog entry by lkessler - 2 Mar 2023
It’s been a long time since I blogged about the tools I use on my computer to deal with my photos. Looking back, I had these articles: Jan 2006: Windows 98 to Windows XP On Windows 98, I was using JASC Paint Shop Photo Album 5. When I got a new computer with Windows XP, JASC had been bought ...
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150th Birthday of Zalmon Hertzan - Blog entry by lkessler - 10 Jan 2023
I’ve put up more than 1200 blog posts since 2002, but I have never up to now posted a biography about anyone in my family tree. I thought today would be a good day to start. Zalmon Hertzan was a younger brother of my great grandmother Toba Focsaner. He was born on Jan 10, 1873, so today would have been his ...
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Got 12 Hours of Genealogy Continuing Education in 2022? - Blog entry by lkessler - 9 Jan 2023
I’ve been a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) for 10 years now, since 2013. I don’t take clients but use my membership to add a bit more credence to my genealogy activities, software development and speaking engagements. Many professional organizations in a variety of fields ...
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GenSoftReviews Award Winners 2022 - Blog entry by lkessler - 1 Jan 2023
Happy New Year everyone. GenSoftReviews is the website I created in 2009 to allow users to rate and review their genealogy software. The goal was for the site to be like a Tripadvisor for genealogists to allow them to see what others think of the various programs before they buy, and to allow the software ...
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My Web Site and Family Research 2022 Summary - Blog entry by lkessler - 31 Dec 2022
Every year on December 31, I have been summarizing my website page views, family tree counts and DNA matches and putting that on my What’s New page of my lkessler.com website so that I can see how much they’ve changed from the year before. But I’ve never before posted these stats on my blog. This year, I ...
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Evaluating Ancestry DNA’s Parental Matches - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Dec 2022
A couple of months ago, Ancestry came out with a new feature called Parental Matches, that shows which parent a DNA match is connected to. My own DNA should be a good test for this. I have 100% endogamy on all my ancestral lines, but my parents are not related according to GEDmatch’s test. Both my parents ...
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Access Violation Error -- Won't Load GEDCOM Data - Forum post by lkessler in Report a Problem - 12 Jul 2023