Dick Eastman (United States)
Dick has been involved in genealogy for more than 30 years. He has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware, software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He built his first home computer in 1980.
Dick is widely known internationally for his Eastman’s online genealogy newsletter.
Website: http://blog.eogn.com
Unlock the Past Cruises
Topics
- Better than Soundex
- Blogging for genealogists
- Cloudy, with a chance of genealogy
- Find genealogy ebooks for free and for pay
- Free genealogy programs: what’s good, what’s not
- Genealogy searches on Google
- Genealogy web site design for societies: electronic publishing for societies
- Going nearly paperless: how to get started
- Maine outhouses I have known and loved
- Mobile apps for genealogy
- Mocavo: a comparison of the best (?) genealogy search engine versus Google
- Putting the genes in genealogy
- The family history world in 10 years time
- The latest preservation technology for genealogists
- The organized genealogist
- Use evernote for genealogy and nearly everything else
- Using a Mac for genealogy
- Using MyHeritage.com effectively
- Using online genealogy programs
- Using Windows genealogy programs on Macintosh computers
- Using Worldcat to find genealogy books
- Wikis for genealogists
