So, here we are again and nothing has really changed. We had a mystery bird out in our meadow but did a bit of delving and discovered what it was; we celebrated Adam's birthday at the end of March; and I managed to research and publish an article on the discovery of Richard III's corpse - "lost" in the UK about 500 years ago!

The Flip-Pal portable scanner is taking the genealogy world by storm. The 16.5-ounce scanner runs on 4 AA batteries, and saves scans to an SD card. It is completely independent of other devices. It scans through glass and plastic, scanning old photographs in their frames without damaging them. Size of the object to be scanned is rendered irrelevant by the "stitching" software, which pieces the various scans of the object together. Read more about this remarkable scanner!

It is very much possible to do genealogy and family tree research just by using free people search websites and tools.This article that I recently found gives some excellent tips and ideas you can try if you are into genealogy.