Dust your computer!

Dust accumulates inside the computer very quickly as shown in the picture. [...]

Job hunting via Facebook…

Yesterday I attended the GMA job fair in Detroit. My local ABC station, ABC12, was there and did a broadcast. They also put a link to their story on their Facebook page. I posted a comment about the story giving a brief account of my experience at the job fair. I didn’t really think much about [...]

New Michigan resource for genealogy

I just received an email from one of my genealogy mailing lists talking about a new resource for doing family history research in Michigan. The mission of Seeking Michigan is “To enrich quality of life by providing access to unique historical information that promotes Michigan’s cultural heritage.  We define cultural heritage as the stories [...]

Switching Blog Provider

When I started my blog, I had it on blogger from Google. However, now since I have my own website, I decided to move the blog to my own site, and thus am changing from blogger to WordPress for my blog software.

I’ve successfully imported all of my blog posts from blogger, but I discovered something. When [...]

Michigan e-Library

One of my students shared a “new” website with me yesterday. The Michigan e-Library website is a website that provides awesome resources for free to anyone who has a Michigan driver’s license or identification card.

The mission statement as on their website states: “Administered by the Library of Michigan in partnership with Michigan’s libraries of all types, [...]

Introducing nancycrivers.com

I have created a website for myself that I plan to use as a “one stop” for all things that are related to me. NancyCRivers.com is my new online home. I’ll have information on there about vacations that I have taken, the businesses that I run, my hobbies as well as articles and other types of [...]

An exciting discovery for the amateur genealogists!

I have known for a while that Google was undertaking a project to scan books from libraries and put them online for all. I also knew there were some concerns about that service. I hadn’t really put any thought to it one way or another to be honest – until now.

I was doing a “routine” google [...]

Genetic Genealogy

The Stiles Family of America has a DNA project going on. Many times, the DNA can help point us in the correct direction to find a missing paper trail, which is one reason why the SFA has started the project. Tonight I spent some time going through the results (I’m helping the co-ordinator) trying to find [...]

Thank you Drs. Paul Adams and Gary Pace

I attended the University of Michigan – Flint campus to obtain my Bachelor’s degree in Biology. I graduated in December 1996 with the B.S. in Biology, minors in Computer Science and Math with an emphasis on Secondary Education. In other words, I wanted to be a Science Teacher.

When I was attending I had [...]

Are you really you?

When I teach some of my computer classes, every once in a while I’ll have a lesson on how to search for things on the Internet. Typically, I use Google for that purpose. I will show my students the tricks of using quotation marks, the plus and minus signs. I almost always use the exact same [...]