Irish Deeds – Updates re: Indexing & Transcription Projects

King’s Inns, Dublin, in which building is also housed The Registry of Deeds. Image credit. The purpose of this blog article is to inform our readers of updates in the Irish Deeds section on Arborealis. At the time of writing, the sub-sections include: Irish deeds: indexes and selected transcripts, 1708–1943 — an introduction to the…

Website redesign: Column shift, inline-six :: One more, once!

Website redesign v.3.3:—Early in the New Year, I learnt that the software which had formed the basis for building Arborealis since June, 2014 was no longer supported. This went a long way to explaining why, for several months at least, merely inputting several phrases or switching windows between that software and other programs or webpages…

Data management and moving social history work to the Web

Talk about a data management problem! and trying to make sense of all that data. I have been researching my paternal (English) and maternal (Irish)‡ lines for fourteen years. As of today,§ the Genealogy folder on my computer contains 12.98 GB of data. According to an article posted to the BBC's web site on December…