Picasa is one of the most popular online photo publishing services available. However, it has always been a place to publish your photos for others to see. Now Google (the owners of Picasa) have introduced Collaborative Picasa Web Albums. Every album on Picasa Web Albums is potentially collaborative: multiple people can add pictures to the same album.

You can now create a Picasa account and then your, your siblings, your cousins, and others can upload pictures to the same albums. This should be a great method of sharing family photos, whether they be from the late 1800s or from last week's family reunion.

via Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter: Collaborative Picasa Web Albums.

The whole reason I set this site up in the new format last fall was because it would be easier to update…Since then life happened and I just realized I haven’t. Updated the data that is. So today I did…Update that is.

Now, unfortunately, that doesn’t mean everything is up to date…No, that would be too easy. My Ancestry.com subscription makes it easy to do research…But hard to move the data from the internets to my database. So in the process of chasing some families online I have yet to put the data into my Legacy database so it can be moved here. Bear with me. It’ll happen.

Anyhow, the site is now as up to date as my database is. I’ll try to make a note to update it more often…

Remember…The Username is Guest and the Password is history

In the last two and a half months alone, the original Genealogy Research Process Map post received 500 pageviews. Version 2 of the map has only a few changes. Besides fixing two typos, the arrows separating the 6 process steps where moved up next to the step headers. I did this to help it look more like a timeline. Looking at the map, there are three main “rows”: the circle diagram, the process timeline, and the process details. The idea is to start in the middle of the diagram to understand the steps in the process: Define, Search, Cite, Analyze, Resolve, and Conclude.

Genealogy Research Process Map – Version 2 | ThinkGenealogy.

I really like the way this chart is laid out…It walks you through the thought processes behind your research. I see it being a help in just about any project you are working on…