MobileGenealogy.com – Downtime/Upgrades – April 19 – 22, 2014

Over the next several days, MobileGenealogy.com will be undergoing several upgrades as far as software and content, and will be regularly updated after that. After the updates are finished, you’ll be seeing a lot of activity here. Apologies for being away – being a father and juggling a few other … Read more

Windows Phone Genealogy Apps – Added

I’ve added the Windows Phone Genealogy apps and software to MobileGenealogy.com. As those of you who are Windows Mobile and Windows Phone users know, there aren’t many genealogy-related apps for the Windows Phone platform. Unfortunately (or fortunately), there is no backwards compatibility for Windows Mobile applications on Windows Phone devices. … Read more

MobileGenealogy.com February 2012 Update #2

Last week I said there would be some downtime as I do some upgrades to the website, as well as some design changes and updates – fixing broken links, outdated information, etc. I’m slightly behind – work I was doing on another website slowed me down. If you want an … Read more

MobileGenealogy.com – Feb 2012 Update

There will be a small bit of downtime over the next week as I do some upgrades to the website, as well as some design changes and updates. I’ll be taking care of outdated information and broken links as well. I also have some new features planned that I will … Read more

Added – Genealogy eBooks through Amazon’s Kindle

Amazon Kindle Genealogy eBooks Just a few minutes ago, I finished adding another page to the site, this one is a new page (I’m still behind on updating some of the old pages), and it covers a topic that I’ve been very interested in lately – genealogy-related eBooks. Specifically it covers genealogy ebooks through Amazon’s Kindle – it’s only covering eBooks you can download for Amazon’s Kindle platform – the actual Kindle eBook readers, the Kindle software for Mac or PC, or for Kindle on iPhone or BlackBerry. I’ll be expanding it to cover other eBook readers (Barnes and Noble Nook, etc.) and getting third-party materials on the Kindle in later articles/entries.

One thing that surprised me – no genealogy magazines in the Kindle format. That’s one area I’d like to see a few publications try out – perhaps Family Tree Magazine or some of the others. I know that some magazines are either stopping publication, or have already stopped publication of their print editions (these past few years have been hard on a lot of companies), but there are still some genealogy-related magazines around.

I’d also like to see back issues somehow made available through services like the Kindle – don’t ask me how that would work. I just know I have a stack of older magazines that would make for great light reading if I had all of them on an eBook reader (or an iPad for that matter). You name it, I’ve got it – Everton’s, Family Tree Magazine, Ancestry, plus some of the smaller publications not to mention some of the UK publications I’ve bought over the years. While some of those have ceased publication, some companies have made their back-issues available in digital formats and you can easily (in my view) get the PDF-formatted files over to the Kindle, but I’d like to see it expanded. I think there is a market if they were reasonably priced. A lot of magazines had a lot of quality writing and interesting/unique articles. Given how tough things have been, I would think that more companies would be looking into trying to make more money from their older materials.

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