Follow Friday: Randy Seaver

Randy Seaver is one of the best known geneal­o­gy blog­gers. He’s con­sis­tent, ded­i­cat­ed, and a gen­uine jour­nal­ist.

Randy’s reviews of new fea­tures on Ancestry.com and Fam­il­y­Search, cut­ting through mar­ket­ing spins to point out where fea­tures are actu­al­ly improve­ments, or bring more ques­tions than answers. He does this with­out ani­mos­i­ty or ran­cor.

If you don’t know Randy’s work, you should amble over to http://www.geneamusings.com/

Recent posts include:

• a sum­ma­ry of plans for the fam­i­ly tree por­tion of Fam­il­y­Search
• a Google Map that directs one to kayak from Seat­tle to Hawaii, and from Hawaii to Tokyo as part of a trip from the San Diego, Cal­i­for­nia area to Tokyo
• a review of GEDCOM export and import of sources, and a dis­cus­sion of attempts to build a bet­ter GEDCOM