You may not always have your family history information at hand on a normal day but you nine times out of ten have your mobile phone.
If like me you have a lot of ‘stuff’ you need to carry, information wise, a specific ‘outing’ is needed to visit a library, archive or other repository. If you are going about your every day life, you don’t keep this information at hand or have access to your Family History Diary – although an A5 Family History Diary, could be kept in your bag.
What do you do if you pass a village or house where family came from ? See a local war memorial with relatives names on or meet someone unexpectedly meet a relative or someone who knew your family ?
Normally, its rummage around for a scrap of paper, use a serviette or try and remember all the information. Yes, done that before and you forget at least something.
Do you have an I phone ? If you do its good news as they have developed an App for such an occasion and it dosn’t cost that much, but could save you the embarrassment of trying to contact the person who gave this information or trying to retrace your steps to find the house or memorial – both time consuming and inconvenient.
I have not tried the App so can’t tell you of any hitches and glitches it may have, but one thing I do know is that as it is mobile phone driven it does need a good signal. There is no point in getting very frustrated in a graveyard in the middle of nowhere when trying to add information if you don’t have a signal – now that is not the App’s fault.
Itunes store – link here