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Research Journal Year in Review

1 January 2009

In June of 2008, I decided to take this blog in a new direction.  Instead of only exploring research problems, I opened it up to a much broader scope.
Since then I’ve written many posts.  I’ve met up with a wonderful group of genealogy bloggers through the Genea Bloggers group on Facebook.  I participated in the [...]

Getting to Know Me, Getting to Know the Research Journal

18 September 2008

I’ve been on the web helping genealogist for several years, first on AOL, then with GenealogyForum.org. In September of 2001, I began the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage website, islandroutes.com.    In January of this year, I revised the Research Journal blog to cover my various areas of research expertise. My goal is to teach people [...]

Ship Indexes Added to IslandRoutes.com

21 August 2008

One of my Genea Blogger Games challenges was to participate in an indexing project. I’ve been working on my own project to index the Portuguese names on manifests for ships coming from Hawaii to California. After months of not doing anything, I put in some hard time today.
The indexes have all been created. [...]

What the Research Journal Blog is About

11 August 2008

As part of the Genea Blogger Games, one of my tasks is to tell you what the Research Journal Blog is about. As I remodeled and refocused the blog recently, it seems like this is a good opportunity.
Originally, this blog was set up to take research projects and follow them step by step to [...]

How Do You Like Our New Look?

23 July 2008

Since I made the move to a new web host, I thought I might as well jump into running my blog myself. I’ve switch from one of the free blog sites over to WordPress.org. It’s a little more work to set up as I have to do all the admin myself. I [...]

IslandRoutes.com Move Complete

22 July 2008

Just thought I’d let everyone know that the move from the old web host to the new web host is complete. There was only a 12 hour down time, so that wasn’t bad.
If you sent an email via the IslandRoutes website Sunday or Monday you might like to resend it. Email was down [...]

Special Note: IslandRoutes will be moving to a new web host very soon

20 July 2008

This is a heads up to all IslandRoutes.com visitors. The website will be moving to a new web host in the next week or two.
You will not have to worry about which URL to use. Islandroutes.com will still be the same. However, during the change in DNS settings their may be a [...]