Five Last-Minute Gifts You Can Buy The Genealogist In Your Family

As we get closer to Christmas, there is a mad rush to figure out what to buy that hard-to-buy person in your family. But if your hard-to-buy person is a genealogist, I’ve got your back. Continue Reading →

The Day Has Arrive – RootsTech Connect 2021

Well, the day has finally arrived, and Roots Tech Connect will start very shortly. In fact, I just checked the RootsTech site, and it’s already morphed into its new look, and it’s beautiful, and it’s easy to navigate. Continue Reading →

Gift For Genealogist and Other News

One of the things I miss this year is going to genealogy conferences and meeting everyone that would come to the Shop the Hound booth. We’ll have to wait a while before we can get back to those types of events. But in the meantime, I wanted to let you know that Shop the Hound is online, and in fact, we’re getting ready for Black Friday. Continue Reading →

Canadian Thanksgiving 2020

This year’s Thanksgiving is going to be different from other years, that’s for sure. Everyone is thinking of ways to have a family get together and still keep social distancing in mind.

I thought I’d give you some ideas for other things to do over the holiday weekend. Continue Reading →

Using Tools To Preserve Family Photos

When you’re the keeper of the family photo collection you have a responsibility to keep it the best way you can. Continue Reading →

How Would You Like a FREE Gift to Give For Valentine’s Day?

Our friends over at Vivid-Pix are giving us the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day. Best of all it’s FREE. That’s the program they’ve created – a Free Gift!  Using your … Continue Reading →

Tell Their Story – Eleanor Thompson nee Middlebrough

As you know in among all the things I do I have a personal project that some of you joined me in called; Getting My Poop In A Group. My … Continue Reading →

Using Vivid-Pix RESTORE To Enhance Documents

You’ve heard me talk about Vivid-Pix RESTORE for photos; in fact, I even interviewed the inventor; Rick Voight and he told us how you can improve your family photos (read … Continue Reading →

I Inherited A Photo Collection… Now What?

A few weeks ago I told you about my father and his move to a seniors apartment. As he prepared his home for sale,  my sibling and I had the … Continue Reading →

“Restore” To The Rescue

A favorite by-product of doing genealogy is family photos. Whether they are from your own collection or your parent’s or from a distant cousin that you’ve been able to take … Continue Reading →