Posting Question

[gwand]

How many folks post using mostly their smart phone or their iPad/tablet or their computer? Just curious. I post mostly with my iPad. I find I make too many spelling errors using my iPhone. Clumsy fingers.

 

[MattW]

PC mainly for me (can use grammarly ) and sometimes Ipad.

 

[Colin_T]

Computer because I can see the screen and read what is written, and my keyboard allows me to type properly instead of making 600 mistakes per sentence.

 

[Ichthys]

Phone. I don't have a computer. I have a laptop somewhere but it probably died of boredom a long time ago.

 

[GaryE]

Laptop, so I can see what I'm looking at. My eyes put the old in old school.

 

[MaloK]

Laptop too, I always prefer a tangible operating system with real HID devices . I'm not fond of OSK's

 

[sharkweek178]

Probably about 50/50. The auto complete on the phone bothers me sometimes. Just so everyone knows, I'm never trying to type "ducking".

 

[Essjay]

Laptop for me. I have a 10 inch tablet but I have to enlarge the keyboard so I can actually hit the right letter, but then it covers too much of the screen and I can't see what I've written.
And my phone is a basic phone with real buttons so no apps or internet connection - if I had a smart phone I'd never be able to type anything on something so tiny.



Besides, most of the time I'm on here I have several other windows open for family history. It's bad enough trying to read some old church records or census images on a 15 inch screen, I'd find it impossible on anything smaller. Using the same device makes it easier to swap between these sites and TFF.

 

[gwand]

Laptop for me. I have a 10 inch tablet but I have to enlarge the keyboard so I can actually hit the right letter, but then it covers too much of the screen and I can't see what I've written.
And my phone is a basic phone with real buttons so no apps or internet connection - if I had a smart phone I'd never be able to type anything on something so tiny.



Besides, most of the time I'm on here I have several other windows open for family history. It's bad enough trying to read some old church records or census images on a 15 inch screen, I'd find it impossible on anything smaller. Using the same device makes it easier to swap between these sites and TFF.

You do genealogy work?

 

[Essjay]

Just personal stuff and for a few friends.


Today has been very frustrating as one site seems to have been affected by this Crowdstrike thingy and I couldn't do anything on there except view a few things. No searching for records or even viewing profiles It's back working now though.

 

[gwand]

Just personal stuff and for a few friends.


Today has been very frustrating as one site seems to have been affected by this Crowdstrike thingy and I couldn't do anything on there except view a few things. No searching for records or even viewing profiles It's back working now though.

Through DNA and genealogy, I became aware of a half-sister. My father helped create her when he was 20 years old and stationed in the Philippines during World War Two. I don’t think he ever knew he left offspring behind. My wife, at the age of 68 through genealogy, and DNA found out that her father that raised her was not her biological father. Indeed, her biological father was an English gentleman stationed in Alaska during the Korean War when he met my wife’s mother. My mother-in-law took this story to her grave. According to my wife’s DNA, her people on her father side are from western Britain and or the Isle of Man. Interesting stuff.

 

[jaylach]

Strictly computer but could be any of six systems but usually my main desktop that is connected to a 43 inch screen. I don't even have a cell phone, hate the things.

Laptop for me. I have a 10 inch tablet but I have to enlarge the keyboard so I can actually hit the right letter, but then it covers too much of the screen and I can't see what I've written.

I assume you mean an on-screen keyboard. If your tablet has a USB port you can probably connect a wireless mouse/keyboard so you would not need the on-screen keyboard. They can be acquired pretty cheap. Shoot, if your tablet has an HDMI port, you could probably even connect to your TV and end up with a mini desktop with a large display. When I first moved into my apartment I did this with an Asus laptop and it worked well.

 

[Essjay]

@gwand
I'm helping my 86 year old uncle by marriage with his family tree. We both thought we had it all sorted until I realised his grandmother was buried with a complete stranger, Richard, so I researched this man. Uncle's father's birth certificate names James as his father (the man the mother was married to), but Richard has interesting World War 1 military records - Richard names my uncle's father as one of his children. So who is uncle's grandfather, James or Richard? So far DNA hasn't proved it either way, just some strong suggestions. Today I noticed that uncle's tree has both his mother and grandmother named as his father's wife which could well explain why 'shared matches' isn't producing any DNA results . He's going to allow me access to his tree so I can sort it out for him.

I've not discovered anything interesting in my family - apart from the number of illegitimate births in the early 1800s.




The majority of my family is from Lancashire in north west England and I'm lucky that there are so many websites with records for that county.

 

[Magnum Man]

I'm probably about half & half... you can usually tell... I fat finger so much on a regular keyboard, my phone is just ridiculous, but from home, I'm always on my phone, then after posting, I go back through it several times, fixing mistakes... bigger screen, & bigger keyboard is a major help...

 

[MattW]

My dad's side of the family is from Lancashire and a few years back some family members managed to create a family tree going back to 1771. It is really interesting what you can learn from a name/surname and all the history behind it.