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Continue reading →: Samsung SmartTag2, vs. Tile: A side-by-side field comparison.
I own both the Samsung SmartTag2 and Tile. As an Android phone owner, I searched for an Apple Airtag-like option for my Samsung smartphone. My application is simple…finding my stuff, should it ever go missing. I am especially interested in the ability to track and locate luggage. At first, I…
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Continue reading →: MyHeritage Receives Failing Grades for Website User Experience and Customer Service.
I’ve been with MyHeritage since nearly the beginning. In one form or another, I have had a paid subscription and supported MyHeritage. Through my deep connections in the professional genealogy community, I witnessed the company grow, innovate, and become the platform it once was. Sadly, I must report I saw…
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Continue reading →: ProGen Study Group – completed!
After completing Boston University’s Genealogical Research program in the Fall of 2018, I had my sights on joining a ProGen Study Group. After hanging around on the ProGen waitlist for over a year, I was finally selected and volunteered to co-lead for a group of stellar genealogists. Assigned to ProGen 46 (Tuesday), I spent the next 14 months studying the…
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Continue reading →: Ancestry DNA Tests – Samples and Resamples.
Photo by digitale.de on Unsplash. I’ve read and seen in various forums the suggestion a person should give their Ancestry DNA sample (saliva) first thing after waking up. The reasoning is that a maximum number of cells, formally part of the tissue inside the mouth, should be suspended in the…
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Continue reading →: Tick, Tack, Toe – or Time, Place, Person.
Airplane pilots will tell you that one of their primary skill sets involves determining time, speed, and distance. Each affects the other two when getting to a destination on time safely. For the genealogist, we have something similar: Time, Place, and Person. The Social Scientist in me always strives to…
Hello,
I’m Aaron
My path toward discovery is never ending. Notice I say toward discovery. True discovery comes from the understanding that the journey is actually the destination.
I use this blog to share my discovery. Topics vary – ranging from my exercises in micro history and travel, to the strange things that come to my mind and how I engage them.
Aaron Tassin, MLIS 