[or-roots] Re: googling your own computer

[Ray Powell]

Googling your computer has its limitations. I understand it will only google 
certain types of files and even then its accuracy is only so-so. After 
reading  a couple of reviews on it I decided that for the time being  the 
small number of advantages weren't worth the problems that were likely to 
occur.

Ray Powell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kith-n-Kin" <Kith-n-Kin at att.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 9:26 PM
Subject: RE: [or-roots] soundex converter


Les and others

Take a look at this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/14/tech/main649317.shtml

You indeed *can* Google your computer. I downloaded this just before I left
for Oregon this week so haven't tried it, but it looks good to me.

BTW, thanks for giving us nice cloudy and "showery" weather!  We were just
looking at the weather forecast -- showers through Tuesday, light rain on
Wednesday. I'm sorry -- is there a difference?

Regards,

Pat (usually in reallly dry Tucson)

-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leslie Chapman
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:13 PM
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: RE: [or-roots] soundex converter


Your welcome Linda, unfortunately I have dozens of neat little things like
that on my puter that I have no idea are there unless I stumble across them,
I guess I need to figure out a way to google my puter. Some of the neat
little things I have are no longer available from the internet, or have been
moved to places I can't find them, and if I don't remember that they exist,
I can't share them with folks. I thought I had googled 'soundes converter'
the other night when the subject came up, but guess I didn't. I also just
remembered another neat site that I can no longer find and unfortunately
what I had saved on my puter got corrupted and is no longer useful, but it
was pages of info for interpreting old style writing.

I know I probably bug some folks with my stream of conscious
(unconciousness?) postings, but sometimes i jar loose a factoid that helps
somebody that would have remained buried if I kept it "businesslike" and
concise and all of that.

Often times newbies don't realize what an infinite genealogy resource the
internet is, I have been at this for about six years now and have
accumulated about 9500 people in my family tree, 7 or 8 thousand of whom are
actual 'kin' and virtually all of whom are only one or two degrees seperated
from 'kin' I have spent maybe a hundred dollars on books and copies from
distant sources, another hundred or so making copies of stuff at Coos and
Douglas County courthouses, and the rest of my info has just cost me time.
My family feels I am obsessed, but I do sleep and work and sometimes even go
to family functions.

But I have probably just about enough stuff on my computer and in my
archives to fill a DVD, I got past one CD a couple years ago at least. So I
really try to discourage folks from going the Ancestry.com subscription, or
buy $100 CD's route until they are sure they have exhausted the internet.
But maybe I am just lucky to have found so much stuff online.

Les C

-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of
LinLouVan at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 8:41 PM
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: Re: [or-roots] soundex converter


Thank you, Les, for that URL.
I don't know if I have seen it before, but it really is neat!

Linda VanOrden
Junction City, OR
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