Despite the intent of this blog as a genealogy adventure, a form of
“Hello, world!” seems an appropriate starting post for this software
professional. I’ve recently returned from my 3rd RootsTech conference,
where the tech-based Innovator Summit sessions hold as much interest for
me as the genealogy specific ones. And once again, everyone was
talking about using blogs to record your research, share it, and of
course, as cousin bait. Since my main web site is still partying like it’s 1999 (that’s about when I first created
it), I figured it wouldn’t hurt to play with some blogging software and
see if I could do any better at keeping that up to date.
You may have noticed that there are a number of posts prior to this date, and wonder how I can have started a blog prior to starting a blog. Is it magic? Have I learned how to time travel?!? How can this be?!?!?!? Lacking a DeLorean, I fall back on what tech knowledge I do have - in this case, backups. These blog sites provide a way to take a backup of all the posts, as well as a way of restoring that backup. But what if you were to, say, tweak the backup files? Maybe change the dates, change the titles... Well, then you can create posts for earlier dates. So I thought I might try to document my genealogy journey prior to this date as well, while keeping my discoveries in chronological order. (My thought of documenting my ancestor's journeys using dates from their timelines was foiled by the blogging software not believing in blog posts dated prior to about 1970, and rejected them on restore. Bummer!)
Let the grand adventure begin!
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