Family Search YouTube Channel

To use YouTube go to YouTube in your url bar.  it will bring up YouTube.   Then you go to the place on the homepage where you can search.  Enter Family Search.  A page will come up, select a video to watch.  Some are lengthy.  Many are under 4:00 Minutes.  The length of the video will be visible on the place where you select it.They are just little snippets of information that often comes in very handy.

This is one way I try to learn little nuggets to fill in the holes in my Swiss Cheese Genealogy/Family History brain.

Here are three random ones I selected to give you an idea of how these work.  All are very short.  You can subscribe to this channel and any other on YouTube.  YouTube is one of the biggest and best search engines on the internet.  If you want to know how to do anything...check with YouTube.

https://youtu.be/-9vA8juUpYs

https://youtu.be/n7wVn4oFjH0

https://youtu.be/QdQkN7DB7uo

YouTube Video Channel For BYU Family History Library

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I try to add a tree photo to most of my posts.  It is just a little brand I have adopted for this blog to remind us how each family tree is beautiful and different from all the others.  I really like this photo.  It reminds me of how some family trees are harder than others to see and appreciate because they are obscured by the fog around them.  We can bring our own tree out of this obscurity by learning a little more each day.  The more we add to our cadre of knowledge, the more the color and beauty of our tree emerges as we draw closer to it.  Not only is the visibility sharper, but its nearness to our hearts is more pronounced.  

YouTube is one of the best sources of information out there and it is so readily available on any topic you choose.  Did you know that you can subscribe to various channels on YouTube?  The BYU Family History Library has a channel!  James Tanner has added over 100 videos on a myriad of topics in the year he has been working at the Library in Provo on the BYU campus.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7hqNOQt-2AfeVEpDuc7sCA

I thought from time to time I will post some of the links to some videos that I have reviewed and thought were good.  The one I am including here is on The New Ancestry.  How do you like it? Have you even seen it yet?  What do you think?  Here's what James has to say about it.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vv_NiOUgYI

Arizona's Loss is Utah's Gain

A few months ago, James Tanner, moved from Arizona to Utah.   He was definitely one of the driving forces behind making the Mesa Arizona Family Search Library one of the best.  He taught so many classes in that Library and around the country.

This week I ran into his YouTube videos that are being produced by the BYU Family History Library.  He is teaching 12-15 classes per week on all kinds of things.  The most recently he has done some classes on Ancestry and My Heritage and is now doing Family Search Family Tree.  If you want to hear someone explain every aspect of what is happening in Genealogy today...up to the minute...he's your man.

You can subscribe to the BYU Family History Library channel.  Just go to Youtube and open the videos.  You can subscribe to the channel there.. You'll find a place to do it right under the video title on any video.  Then you'll be notified when new videos from the Library are added in the future.  You can see all the archived one too.

He has two blogs:  http://geneaologysstar.blogspot.com  More General Genealogy 

http://rejoiceandbeexceedingglad.blogspot.com/   Church Related and often coincides with his classes at BYU.

Microsoft Snipping Tool

  

After I have read through a lesson I like to ponder it for awhile.  This one reminds me of the old days when if you saw something noteworthy you would just have to hand copy it.  Remember?  If you were researching something from books in a library you'd have to take copious notes and it moved like a glacier.  Now snip it  (or clip it in Evernote if you are an Apple lover or don't have Windows 7) and you have it at your disposal in seconds.  This is what I truly love about technology.  The options are never-ending and plentiful if we will just take the time to learn things like this the sky is the limit.  The possibilities really boggle the mind and keep things exciting.

The Snipping Tool is a screen capture application that is included in Window 7.  Since all of our computers at the Library have been upgraded to Windows 7 this seems like it would be a very useful tool.  With it you can either do screen shots or snip just a portion of anything on the screen.

Then you can save the snip to your flash drive as a .jpg or to your documents folder or you can even include it in an email. (I like to email things to myself from the library sometimes and then file it at home in my electronic files on my desktop computer.) You can also annotate the image.  This could be very helpful to a genealogist if you are unable to view it on a website's image viewer or you just need a little clip for something from a newspaper or online article.

So where do we find this little magic application on Windows 7? To find the Snipping Tool on the OFSL computers click on the Start button.  The Snipping Tool is on the menu list, simply select it to open it on the Desk Top.  The pair of scissors and oval above is the icon.

On other computers using Windows you can go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Snipping Tool if you do not see see it by clicking on Start and don't find it in the menu list.

You can even pin the icon for the Snipping Tool to the task bar by right clicking on it. I would imagine this will only be good for a session at the Library as everything added iby patrons is removed at day's end.  But it would remain on the taskbar on your own computer.  I will check on that tomorrow when I get to work.  Mac here.

To learn how to use this nifty little treasure you will need to read and follow the instructions on the lesson materials.  They are excellent.  The lesson is found in the Dropbox link below.

Muir Woods Creek from a bridge,
the other day with our kids.  
It was so gorgeous and peaceful.

Just wanted to add in a little color.  
Too much black and white on this page!

Here is another idea for learning these techie things if you are a multi-sensory learner.  Try a YouTube tutorial!  I looked this up on Youtube by just entering Microsoft Snipping Tool and it was great.  I scrolled down to one that was a tutorial that lasted only 1:58 seconds.  In it I was able to see and hear exactly how to use it.  Seeing it and hearing someone explain it made it so easy.  Especially after going over the lesson that was prepared for us.  I love YouTube for all kinds of learning.  I bet you cannot think of too many things you'd like to learn to do that are not on there just waiting for you to take a couple of minutes to investigate. 

From Bonnie: "Web Snipping Tool-Staff Training-Lesson 8" Click here to view (Bonnie shared these files using Dropbox. Enjoy!)

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