Website Development

After about a year, I removed Print My Blog and am redirecting folks to the Print My Blog website. So that was fun. I’m mostly making this post just to say “I’m still here!” although this isn’t getting a lot … Read More

I decided to finally make this site more secure by switching it to HTTPS instead of just HTTP. Up until a year or two ago, this would have been a somewhat tricky and non-free proposition. But now it was really … Read More

I received some feedback* recently pointing me to on ancestry.com’s research charts and forms. These forms are pretty old school (you can’t even fill in a word document on your computer, you actually need to print them off). But they give … Read More

This article sums up many of the benefits of blogging your family history: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Blog_Your_Way_to_Genealogical_Success. …And that’s basically what Dead Easy research goals are: blog posts about your family history research (which happen to also be categorized, suggest researc tips relating … Read More

Just made the site live today! 🎉 Tons of bugs to fix, improvements needed for the user interface, and work needed to make it usable. But I’m sure it will be a constant work in progress. Big thanks to my … Read More