Sep 24, 2009
News:
Read Lisa's Blog post "Google Books Revolutionary Next Step"
How to Order Key Civil War Records by Tamie Dehler, Tribune-Star
Mailbox:
A listener writes in to share her experience with Genealogy
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Check out the free program Transcript 2.0 that listeners are raving about.
GEM: Probate Records with Jana Broglin, CG
How to Find Probate Records:
- Research the local jurisdiction
- Find where wills are filed
- Look in Index of Testators or General Index to Wills
- Request the packet
Jana's Tips:
- Don't overlook Vouchers / Receipts
- Ask for numerous short pages to be photocopied onto one page
- Just because you find a guardianship record, don't assume both parents are deceased.
Visit Jana's Web Site
GEM: Sorting your bookmarks alphabetically
in Safari (Mac)
Thanks to listener Eiya Loki
How to Sort
Bookmarks:
1. On the top of your screen click
on Bookmarks
2. In
Bookmarks drop down menu click on Show All
Bookmarks
3. In the left pane
under Collections click on Bookmarks Menu
4. click on
any bookmark in the right pane
5. Go directly up
to Edit at the top of your screen and
click on it
6. Click on Select All
from the drop down menu
7. Open up Finder and
make a folder on your desktop called "bookmarks"
8. Double click on the folder to open it
up.
9. Then on your keyboard press Command-J. This
will open a little window.
10.
About in the middle of this
window you will see the words Arrange
By: with a drop down menu right next to it, click the
drop down menu
option Name.
11. Now go
back to Safari and drag a third of Safari's window out of
screen
12. Position the finder in the empty half of
the screen.
13. Go back to the Bookmarks Menu
14. Click and drag all of your bookmarks in the
Finder window.
15. There the will be automatically sorted even
the bookmarks inside folders!
16. Go back to Safari and
re Select All to your bookmarks just as
you did before but this time after you have all you bookmarks
highlighted
17. Go back up
to Edit &
click Delete in the drop down window.
18. Go back to
the Finder window and Select
All just as you did before
19. Drag the bookmarks back
into Bookmarks Menu in
Safari.
