Mel - Just Do it Blog

I have got the blogger b ug.....  just created another blog/website in wordpress for my Estonian research.   See https://melsfamilyresearch.wordpress.com/ .  It is also listed in my profile. In the family research blog, I explored using Google Earth Pro to display locations for my Estonian research.  This was inspired by Lisa Lou ise Cooke's  brilliant plenary session which finished off the   15th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Herald ry   in Sydney .   Being new to Google Earth, I was able to easily follow her instructions to get and create my free Google Earth Pro Historical Map collection .... and even rememberd to File->Save->Save My Places often.  It is amazing what this could be used for if you get access to detailed maps (even beyond what we added from Rumsey). BUT... I am so new to this tool that I needed to take a step back and just start getting familiar with it.  I've started with basic mapping geographically where my parents were born and will ext

Hi - I'm Mel. This is my first ever blogger post. I attended a talk from Jill Ball about " Beaut  Blogs" -- As a first-timer to the 15th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry  in Sydney,  it was my first session on the first day.  Afterwards I couldn't stop thinking about it. I have wanted to do a blog for a long time ....  but with most things I say to myself - "I'll do it later" - then get too busy, convince myself it will be too hard, or just forget... This time I said to myself "Mel -  JUST DO IT  " Well, I have to admit -- first time, I just couldn't get it to work out the way I wanted (using free Wordpress), so after some advice from Jill, I tried with free Blogger instead.  Jill suggested using WikiHow to guide me. So I'm not saying that I have a "Beaut Blog" (yet) but  now  I've started a blog and I think that I can build on this...  more things to try from the Congress coming up soon.