WINTER 2010 GENEABLOGGERS GAMES

Just completed item  Task E from #4  Expand Your Knowledge, create a surname visualization using Wordle, Word It Out or a similar application.  Post the graphic to your blog.  One task completed a Bronze medal.  Juliana has now scanned about eighty photos.  I have about thirty of them assigned an id number within their appropriate MRIN file and have posted the pictures in my genealogy database.

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Jo said…
Amy, I liked your word cloud so much I decided to try it myself. I tried both Word It Out and Wordl and decided to use the Wordl application. Thanks for you post and keep up the great work.
February 20, 2010 at 10:57 PM
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