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[Context for this comic: Adobe & Apple are having a battle over Adobe's Flash, a proprietary platform which is widely used for video and other features on the web.] Mutter: yes, i can imagine Apple moving away from Mac OS X. I suspect there will be enough OS X fans to decamp to some unix platform that there will be a happy place to go to.
Evening, morning: making sure i've mined all my downloaded sources exhaustively for the individuals already noted in my rigorous GED file (genealogy research format). Then i found Georgia's Virtual Vault, with images of death certificates and scans of marriage registries. I have no plans to particularly publish, but i am being as detailed and careful as possible as i document my facts. What i love about the very awkward to use GenealogyJ software is the ability to efficiently create source records or note records and link each assertion back to the notes, sources, and multimedia. Having standalone records means that multiple assertions for multiple persons can link to the single source record: data duplication is diminished. I constantly find i've not been as rigorous as i could have been, but it's still improved over my first uses of the format.
Why be so rigorous? I don't trust the leaps in logic random folks have made. Buried in a county doesn't mean died in the county, for example. A few years ago i had a snarl to untangle and by not having all my sources for each assertion, it was exceedingly hard. It only takes one person to read a will of person A and find another will of person B with a name mentioned in the first will to then assert that A was the father of B. I actually sat and read the wills (finally) and noted some discrepancies: but "common wisdom" is now that A is the father of B. They might be cousins, uncle-nephew, but there was remarkable duplication of names in extended families. Names are not particularly unique.
Anyhow, i've diverted myself for hours and hours. What's up with that? I wonder, and suspect that i grazed some emotions yesterday when facing my parents' work patterns. My sister responded to my query with the confirmation, "[Y]ou are remembering quite well. I remember this especially on Sundays because the ENTIRE morning would be consumed with arguing about going to church vs. getting something done. We'd go to miserable church with the miserable rides to and fro, eat lunch, get to work... eat dinner, nothing done... go to sleep... start it over next week."
[Interrupted by the onset of work]
Evening, morning: making sure i've mined all my downloaded sources exhaustively for the individuals already noted in my rigorous GED file (genealogy research format). Then i found Georgia's Virtual Vault, with images of death certificates and scans of marriage registries. I have no plans to particularly publish, but i am being as detailed and careful as possible as i document my facts. What i love about the very awkward to use GenealogyJ software is the ability to efficiently create source records or note records and link each assertion back to the notes, sources, and multimedia. Having standalone records means that multiple assertions for multiple persons can link to the single source record: data duplication is diminished. I constantly find i've not been as rigorous as i could have been, but it's still improved over my first uses of the format.
Why be so rigorous? I don't trust the leaps in logic random folks have made. Buried in a county doesn't mean died in the county, for example. A few years ago i had a snarl to untangle and by not having all my sources for each assertion, it was exceedingly hard. It only takes one person to read a will of person A and find another will of person B with a name mentioned in the first will to then assert that A was the father of B. I actually sat and read the wills (finally) and noted some discrepancies: but "common wisdom" is now that A is the father of B. They might be cousins, uncle-nephew, but there was remarkable duplication of names in extended families. Names are not particularly unique.
Anyhow, i've diverted myself for hours and hours. What's up with that? I wonder, and suspect that i grazed some emotions yesterday when facing my parents' work patterns. My sister responded to my query with the confirmation, "[Y]ou are remembering quite well. I remember this especially on Sundays because the ENTIRE morning would be consumed with arguing about going to church vs. getting something done. We'd go to miserable church with the miserable rides to and fro, eat lunch, get to work... eat dinner, nothing done... go to sleep... start it over next week."
[Interrupted by the onset of work]
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