GeneHunter is the nom de plume I use for my genealogy activities on-line. I was born in central Ohio, but moved to southeast Virginia in the early 70's. Through the years, I have worked in various fields including banking, retail, horticulture, and transportation.  Now I am an assembly technician for a company that manufactures fiber optic units for science, medicine, and industry.

 

For last 7 years I have sporadically searched for information about my progenitors with varying success.  As you may imagine, researching my Ohio-based family from Virginia is challenging. The internet, email, and mailing lists have been essential. I borrow microfilm to view at my local FHC. I occasionally travel to Ohio and Maryland and I often resort to writing snail-mail query letters to small-town libraries, churches, historical societies, and courthouses. I use TMG 6.03 to record data. I use Excel 2003 to index census data and to make timelines. I use Word 2003 to for word-processing. I scan photographs and documents to store on my computer, and frequently back up my genealogy folder on CDs. I use loose-leaf notebooks to store hard copies of family datasheets along with supporting documents inside page protectors. And then there are the boxes I haven’t organized yet.