Correction Concerning Recent Article/Commentary about California and Genealogy Records

Recently I mentioned that George G. Morgan’s ‘Along Those Lines’ column moved off of Ancestry.com and over to his own blog, and that he was free to comment on anything and everything. I misrepresented an article he wrote about genealogy rights, Ancestry.com, and government records (i.e. government restrictions on records).

There was a very good reason why he wasn’t able to write about the issue in his column, and he’s offered his thoughts and a correction of my perception in a follow-up comment here at RandomGenealogy.com

More on Macs, Windows

Another major announcement about Macs, and kind of a follow-up to yesterday’s announcements. Again, from MG – Virtualization for Mac OS X – basically it’s a way to run Windows inside of Mac OS X at “near-native” speeds, so that one doesn’t have to reboot into Windows.

What this means, is for diehards like me, I can use the new Macs, but keep my collection of Windows genealogy software that I am still hanging onto, and easily run them whenever I need to.

New Macs From Apple – Run Windows and Mac OS X!

This caught me off guard – a story at MacGenealogy.org about Apple releasing a utility that would allow people who buy the new Macs (that have Intel CPUs) to boot both Windows and Apple’s Mac OS X. Not at the same time, mind you, and not like VirtualPC where you have Windows running slugishly under Mac OS X in its own environment.

I’ve been a Mac user for a while. Genealogy is the one area that I never fully “switched”. I had too much data in Windows-based genealogy programs, and at the time there wasn’t much in the way of Mac genealogy software (there was kind of a low-point a few years back where only a few companies/individuals kept things going on the Mac genealogy front). My solution was to both keep a PC around, as well as VirtualPC (which, in my mind is basically a Windows emulator, it allows you to run Windows, and thus Windows applications, under Mac OS).

Things have changed big-time in the Mac community, especially the Mac genealogy community. There appear to be ten or eleven active Mac genealogy applications, both from companies and individuals, including several free ones. Last year, Steve Jobs announced that Macs are moving to Intel, and that Mac OS X was available for Intel Macs (or MacIntels or whatever you want to call them).

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Digital Cameras and Genealogy

I’ve been looking at new digital cameras as I want to upgrade for various reasons (not the least of which I’m into gadgets and love seeing new stuff). There have been three sites (and especially their user forums) that were extremely helpful to my getting up to speed on the latest and greatest, and I just wanted to mention them:

Steve’s Digicams – Great forums, lots of information
Rob Galbraith’s site – Lots of information to crunch through
DPReview.com – Same as above, and I have spent many hours browsing their forums (they have a great photo retouch forum in addition to the normal camera-oriented forums).