kathyjwhite.com
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Genealogy trees have reached 48700+ persons, an 11600 person increase over last year. Averaging about 960 new people per month. Trees and photos have also increased. Response from other people researching has also increased. As I go through family history books, details are added, facts from sources like provincial databases. Finding Sask/BC/AB trees are overlapping. And finding related people EVERYWHERE

my new 1 TB backup drive is the same size as my iPhone. Boy, things are getting tiny... I can simply take it with me in the event of an emergency! Not even a power cord, simply a USB plug-in to computer.

after 35 years (yes, I had a Apple IIe, the Mac Plus wasn't even invented yet) of macs and peripherals, and being used not to failure but "obsolete-ism", I had a backup drive and printer fail within weeks of each other. The drive was 2 yrs and the printer 8 ms. Both were trusted brands. Whatever happened to longevity? I replaced both. I guess "throw-away" society now applies to computer products. I have now dealt with 2 service depts. Hope nothing else goes wrong. I don't like it at all.

Genealogy trees have reached 37000+ persons, a 7000 person increase over this time last year. Photos have also increased. Response from other people researching has also increased.

updated the website (just because I can...) http://www.kathyjwhite.com/

Photo restoration. Colour correction and repair, scratch and dust removal of 1940 photo

better late than never... posting my completed web certification

updating the Hythe Speedway website, in coordination with Ian Burgess in Calgary. Web development is truly "without borders". He uses a godaddy web builder (no problem there).

I have added a MSA blog page to website www.kathyjwhite.com Makes more sense than having 2 separate websites. Also switching providers, so things will be new and different and somewhat a "work in progress".

Shocked to discover something for the first time in many years of genealogy. Innocently following up one of the South Peace Archives into fallen war heroes. He had a Cree wife and 4 children, born locally and baptized at St Joe's. Archives has a nicely worded story about the kids being sent to be educated in Edmonton, 2 girls to a covent, 2 boys elsewhere (unknown). I have since found out that indigenous children were taken by the RCMP and clergy, and that parents could be ...lawfully charged if they didn't give them up. What I found in the 1921 census, the girls (8,13) were termed as "inmates" and there were both boys and girls of young ages. There were even Alberta-born children as young as 4. Definitely not a convent. Headed by a matron and assistant matron. Residential school? Oldest girl died at 21. Can't find the boys. Doing more research. Somehow I misthought that residential schools were a long time ago and didn't affect Beaverlodge kids.

over multiple trees, genealogical total has reached 57,000+ and photos

have a new toy. Converts photos to watercolours. Still learning...