Grandmas
My 13 year old grandson, Christopher Freestone, came to
our house the other day, and wanted to see my new laptop, which
has Windows Vista on it. He was all over the computer, asking this
question and that. I let him investigate for a while and then I asked
if he had seen my family history. He said no, but he would like to. So
I showed him what I had. I had added photos to my PAF and he thought
that was cool. He thinks it is neat to have a "techy" Grandma!
He wanted to see how far back I had gone with the family
history.
By the time he went home, we had looked at all my family
history, then he wanted to know how he could put it on his own computer
at home. I explained how he could get PAF downloaded to his
computer from FamilySearch. He said he could do that. Then he wanted to
know how he could get what I had onto his computer. So
we made a backup of my file and sent it to his email address.
Two days later I called him, wondering if he had thought any
more about it, and he told me he had downloaded PAF, put the backup in,
and made himself RIN number one in the file. It would probably
take some of our new consultants three weeks at least to do that.
Then on Mothers Day, when we went to his house for a BBQ,
Christopher told me he had also called his other grandmother, and
got her file added to what he already had. What a
whizz! I had taken my computer with me, to his
house, because I had added some info a couple of
days before, about World War II, that I had found on the Internet.
I thought someone might like to see it.
The week before, one of the high priest group leaders from
our stake, a past bishop of ours, had asked if I could speak to his 12
year old daughter about evacuation in World War II, as she had to find
out about it for home work. I lived in England
as a child and was evacuated at the age of six. I had previously done
the same thing for an older daughter some three or so years before.
There was a lot of info about the war on the Internet. I had
even found the sound of the air-raid warning and bombs dropping, and
then the all-clear. She was very interested in that.
It was also of great interest to Christopher, as well as two
of my teenage granddaughters, who were also at the BBQ.
Pam Freestone (S L Granger South Stake F H Center Director)