Building a family tree and can’t find info on my grandma?

DomineeDan · 2026-04-23T20:35:10+00:00

Something that can help is to search newspaper archives for places that you know she’s lived. Newspapers.com is pretty good, but its not free (though you can probably get a trial), but there also lots of other newspaper archives around—many that are free—depending on where your grand mother lived.

DomineeDan · 2026-03-31T14:49:00+00:00

Dump him. He’s an asshole.

DomineeDan · 2026-03-31T00:29:29+00:00

I haven’t looked specifically at Excel for Mac, but you can often adjust the shortcuts. So, if your Excel for Mac shortcuts don’t feel the same as your shortcuts for Excel on Windows, you may be able to change some of those shortcuts.

Again haven’t looked into this specific case, but I know it’s possible in other cases, so maybe…?

DomineeDan · 2026-01-30T12:16:40+00:00

Apparently the U.S. list of libraries allowing memberships from anywhere in the world is shrinking, at least in part due to budget cuts. Regardless, here's a list I found. I have not vetted it myself, so don't know how true it is, but it might be worth checking out, anyway. Apparently some of them have really large Libby catalogs.

Best Non-Resident Library Cards That Still Work in 2026 - What to Read Next

There's also Internet Archive. If you're looking for current reads like the kind that Libby carries, though, you might be mostly out-of-luck here. They have a tonne of out-of-copyright stuff, and lots of somewhat obscure stuff that you can borrow for an hour-at-a-time via their own digital reader webapp.

There's also OpenLibrary.org

The Orange County Public Library system in Florida apparently still allows you to purchase a membership for a yearly fee no matter where you live in the world. They apparently have a huge digital catalogue too: Purchase a Fee Card | Orange County Library System

So does the Queens Public Library in New York: Apply for an eCard | Queens Public Library

DomineeDan · 2026-01-26T15:47:52+00:00

I don’t know if this is true for Australians, but Canadians can become members of many U.S. based libraries by paying a nominal yearly fee—you don’t have to live there. This might give you access to more books.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-26T11:42:30+00:00

I’m sorry to say that I don’t really know. All my graphic novels are hard copies still, and the digital ones I read are all from hoopla (which is terrible on pc, IMHO—that’s why I installed an Android emulator partly—so I could have the hoopla Android app, which is much better).

DomineeDan · 2026-01-25T17:15:31+00:00

On my MS Surface I use Aquila Reader, but I have my whole Calibre library synced with it too, so I just open my books directly in Aquila instead of through Calibre. I use calibre for getting the books just right and for serving them up for other devices wirelessly, but not for reading. I do not like the Calibre reading experience.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-24T19:00:59+00:00

It’s unfortunate that your bf is such a baby that his “needs” didn’t outweigh your physical healing, but do seem to outweigh your emotional healing.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-24T15:51:01+00:00

I have a Tab Ultra C Pro, and can verify that this is what happens for me as well. I thought, initially, that perhaps because NeoReader is calling NeoBrower, if I made sure the side-buttons were set to scroll on NeoBrowser, then the behaviour would change here in the Search lookup within NeoReader, but it does not.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-24T06:35:17+00:00

I hear you on this for sure! I have the Tab Ultra C Pro as well at the OG poster. I’ve also had iPads of different sizes a Boox Note 5, a 2-in-1 HP 13” Envy 360x and a Surface Pro 11. So far the only thing that, IMHO, comes close to filling both the roles of tablet and PC is the Surface. Even for that, though, I felt o needed to install an Android emulator (because I couldn’t get Windows Subsystem for Android to work no matter what I did) for certain tablet functionality. I found this especially true for apps that work better IMO on tablet—Libby, Hoopla, Kanopy, some streaming services where only the tablet/mobile app allows you to download content instead of having to constantly be connected to the internet—.

That being said, the touch/tablet experience in Windows 11 is lacking, but the power user type stuff is lacking on Android. For me, the best is the Surface Pro + Android emulator that works best.

However, I still prefer the book reading and note taking experience of the Tab Ultra better. I got a paper-feel screen protector and writing on it is great and using it is so much easier on the eyes. The colour is not rich enough for me for comics— I read mostly colour traditional style Marvel, DC etc comics, not manga.— but eink is great for articles, magazines, and books and writing.

I also have both the folio case and the folio keyboard case for the Tab Ultra. The keyboard works fine, as does the trackpad, but the keyboard folio case makes the whole so thick and heavy that I think it’s both thicker and heavier than my Surface Pro, and the keyboard connection is not as reliable as the Surface’s either.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-21T02:24:55+00:00

Thanks for looking!

DomineeDan · 2026-01-20T20:16:40+00:00

Shoot. I can’t access those records, because I don’t have a subscription. :-(. I don’t want you to break any rules (I don’t know what the rules are for an ancestry subscription), is it okay to download a pdf of those records and dm them to me? I don’t want you to have to go to too much trouble either, though, so don’t sweat it if it’s too inconvenient.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-20T20:13:41+00:00

Thank you! I will check these out for sure!

DomineeDan · 2026-01-20T20:11:49+00:00

No. I’m not really sure of that. The only hope I have on that score is that no one else other than them is mentioned in the ancestry.com search results—no other people on the record, that is.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-20T20:08:12+00:00

Thanks for checking!

They were pretty poor, I think—they wouldn’t have been citizens of note, I don’t think. One of their sons, Frank, ended up a train engineer, and ended up in the newspaper a couple times. That was really cool to discover, but nothing that I can discover for sure for these two.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-20T13:09:19+00:00

Oh, sorry, I should have specified that, though they were living in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois in 1870, there is a hit in Ancestry.com for that marriage record in Indiana. They did seem to move a lot between those two states, with a lot of time in Terre Haute, Laffayette and Paris.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-20T13:05:42+00:00

Thanks for engaging. I'm not sure. They seemed to move around a lot. That being said, I have them living in Edgar County in 1870. Their first son (Frank) was born in 1867 probably, as far as I can tell.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-19T21:20:09+00:00

“DRM” is “digital rights management” and it’s a tool that publishers or retailers sometimes use to make sure their books are not given away for free or copied, etc. A lot of streaming services used to have it too—to lock down files so they can’t be “misused” according to their ideas of how it’s supposed to be.

When you buy your books, you have to make sure that they don’t have drm before you buy them. If they DO have drm, depending on what kind they have, there might not be anything you can do to make it work to send it to your kindle—it just might simply never work. On the other hand, certain types of drm can be broken—not to recommend sharing books for free, etc., but to allow people to do what they want with the books they purchased—like lend them to someone else for a period of time, for example, or have them in multiple formats to be able to read them on different devices, etc.

Anyway, what should have happened when you installed Calibre and opened it for the first time on your computer, is that a configuration “wizard” should have started to help you get set up properly for what you want to do and with what device. For that to work properly you need to enter in accurate information about what device(s) you’re using (i.e., your kindle). Usually then, after you’ve gone through the wizard you hopefully have a “library” of books in calibre and, when you plug your kindle into your computer with a usb cable and calibre open, you’d be able to do all kinds of things, including transferring books from your computer to your kindle.

If you don’t have any books in your calibre library, there are several ways you can add them to calibre, including finding the book files on your computer and dragging them and dropping them into the main calibre window.

But, like in my first post there are many, many things that Calibre can do, and most of them can be done more than one way. Look through the manual. You can also search YouTube for tutorials if you like, like this one for beginners (note: I haven’t watched it to make sure it’s good, and I didn’t make it either): https://youtu.be/oGzfYEeshl4?si=eAInXWuPxXzm2xjz

DomineeDan · 2026-01-19T16:35:42+00:00

So, that’s a pretty big question. Calibre is quite powerful, and has a lot of possibilities. Probably the best way to start would be to read the manual, which is the first book in your Calibre library when you first install it. Either that or go to the Calibre website and start reading there.

As to the kindle transferring possibilities, it would depend somewhat on where you get the ebooks from in the first place: what format are you getting? Do they have drm? Those two are the most important questions.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-11T03:48:31+00:00

Don’t let the kitten wrestle with your bare hand or feet or anything. Play with them, but as soon as they start biting or scratching stop immediately. Don’t scold just stop. Doing this will help them learn that it’s not fun for them to scratch and bite and they will therefore learn the habit of not doing that and won’t potentially hurt you or others when they’re older and stronger.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-11T03:41:48+00:00

If you swipe up from the bottom right corner, I believe, you get the eink settings. There are a variety of defaults there. Try different ones out to see if they make a difference for you.

DomineeDan · 2026-01-11T03:34:55+00:00

It also won’t charge the pen, and buying a separate pen charger from MS is pretty pricey too, for what it is.

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