Two Week Sabbatical (GeneaPopPop)

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Apr 012010
 

The blog hasn’t been as active over the past week as I would like.  I’ve been slowed down by a swollen lymph node in my neck…  CT scan yesterday…   saw the Head & Neck Surgeon today.    He is going to do a laryngoscopy Monday and take a biopsy.  It likely is a result of a benign condition but, obviously, the first determination is to rule out the possibility of cancer. 

This delays a trip to St. Louis to visit our grandkids (our daughter and son-in-law too).  Because of the medical procedures and the possibility of additional work-ups, plus the travel, I’m going to take a break from blogging for the next couple of weeks until my schedule gets back to whatever ‘normal’ means.

Transcript – a Genealogy Gem (GeneaPopPop)

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Apr 012010
 

Thank you to TennLady at GeneNotes (on recommendation from Granny’s Genealogy) for the post on Transcript, a great application from Jacob Boerema a Dutch genealogist.  Transcript allows you to have an image file open in the upper screen while transcribing information from that image in the lower screen.  I just downloaded and installed the free program and gave it a try on a letter writted to my Dad from his Aunt Katie (for his 6th birthday).

This certainly is better than working on two separate screens or transcribing by pencil and paper.  It is all right before me on a single screen…    and it keeps me from generating more waste paper. This application will be well used.   You may want to take a look at it.  The only limitation I have found is that it is a Windows application and I will have to use it in Virtualbox on my Linux computers.