Set during what are historically known as the Killing Times, when Scottish Presbyterians were harassed, fined, and even executed for their unwillingness to submit to a church hierarchy under the king, The Betrayal of Maggie Blair is both an adventure novel and a coming of age story. In seventeenth-century Scotland, saying the wrong thing can …
Read MoreWhat sane woman would consider becoming any man’s ninth wife? Bess Gray is a thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist living in Washington, DC. Just as she’s about to give up all hope of marriage, she meets Rory, a charming Irish musician, and they fall in love. But Rory is a man with a secret, …
Read MoreIn the past I’ve reviewed MacFamilyTree on this blog, comparing it to similar programs such as Ancestry.com‘s Family Tree Maker. This year Synium Software released an update to MacFamilyTree, which is now in its sixth edition (6.1.2). The update fixes small glitches, improves soundex calculation, and has better data migration than pervious versions. How can …
Read MoreTake a look at this image: If you think that it looks familiar, that’s because it does. It looks almost exactly like Family Tree Maker, and that’s intentional. This annoys me: Nova Development has an app on the Apple App Store called Family Tree Maker, sponsored by Ancestry.com. It is exactly the same as the …
Read MoreI don’t usually do product reviews, but in this case I felt particularly motivated. For three years I’ve been using Family Tree Maker 2008 to keep track of my family’s genealogy. The software is produced by Ancestry.ca and is available in stores and from Amazon.ca for $75 new ($45 used). A 2011 edition is now …
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There are few books in my 2013 TBR pile that I'm going to read slowly, on an ongoing basis because frankly they terrify me. They're thick books about heavy subjects, and the only way I can bear to digest them is to read them slowly.
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