What to do when you wander into QUICKSAND Volume 29 Issue 5-6 May-June 2018 PastFinde r SILICON VALLEY COMPUTER GENEALOGY GROUP A warning about quicksand in Greenland (Wikimedia image by Niels Elgaard Larsen) By Janet Brigham the ancestral lines off in...
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What to do when you wander into QUICKSAND Volume 29 Issue 5-6 May-June 2018 PastFinde r SILICON VALLEY COMPUTER GENEALOGY GROUP A warning about quicksand in Greenland (Wikimedia image by Niels Elgaard Larsen) By Janet Brigham the ancestral lines off in unfamiliar di- The woman arrived at the Family rections. We have experienced that our- History Library second level with selves. crutches and a wheelchair , which A knowledgeable staff member sat was pushed by her husband. down with the distraught woman and With loud dismay, she an- helped her log in to her tree, in hope nounced to the staff on the second that it was not actually gone, just un- level that someone had thrown away reachable because she was not logging her tree. She had spent years put- in correctly. I have a similar problem on ting her family information into an FamilySearch —it rarely accepts my online tree at FamilySearch.org, she password the first time I enter it. exclaimed, but now it appeared to Like many of us, she
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