Leaves of Heritage Genealogy

Some background leading up to my quest: My mother died when I was just shy of 3 months old. I grew up with my father and his mother and knew very little about my mom's side of the family. When I was pregnant and 18 I decided I needed to learn more. I...

I am working on unlocking the mysteries of the life of my great grandfather Homer Burton Byers. There are a lot of unanswered questions and I am going to use my page to share my research as I work through the layers of his life. So sit tight, and watch...

Nowadays, people all over the Internet are looking for ways to vamp up their sites. Unfortunately, that sometimes entails stealing others' content and posting as their own.
Late last year I wrote of a website poaching content from a Vietnam Veterans' Memorial site and posting it not only to their own site with almost invisible attribution, but they also posted the info on Fold3 memorial pages as their own. I wrote to Fold...

 Recently Yahoo email, Facebook, and Ancestry.com have made some changes that, for me, are truly inconvenient. This is just a short rant about technological changes for the worse.
For the email issue, Yahoo had reorganized the way things looked by squishing my preview pane and having a list of emails on the left instead of the middle, in addition to the folders. I understand that seeing the list on the left was supposed to make...