Who Was That Person?

Did not report progress last week because I bought a new computer, and switching from the old to the new resulted in several days of chaos. Obviously, it also reduced the amount of productive work done too. Hopefully it will pay-off in the long run, with increased productivity, though so far things are slower rather than faster with the new computer. The computer itself is faster, but I’m slower.

The old computer was a desk-top model, and this new one is a lap-top — and although the keyboard if nearly as large as on the desktop, there are some differences that take time to get used to. I taught myself to type as a teenager, using my Mom’s antique Underwood clunker. When I began typing on a computer keyboard in the 1970s, I found it easier to use the left shift key for all the letters, rather than switch back and forth — I could type faster by doing it ‘wrong’ so for the past 35 years that is what I have done. Now, however, I find with this ever so slightly more cramped keyboard that I keep hitting the caps-lock key when I try to use the left shift key to capitalize letters typed with the left hand. So I’m having to re-learn to type correctly, hence I’m a bit slower.

My wife and I will be able to spend more time on the beach now though, since I can get some work done while there. That should make up for any other inconveniences.

Here is our summary of data entry progress for the past two weeks:

Erie County NY Genealogy – rec2gen site
Week 13 ending Monday 15 Nov 2010
# Sources Listed: 150
# Articles: 1
# Places: 269
# Images: 12
# Scraps: 70
# Names in Db: 14,600 (1,477 increase)
# Factoids: 40,780 (3,943 increase)