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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- The Wayback Machine

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music):

1)  Do you have a website or a blog?  Or know someone with one?  Pick yours, or theirs or another.

 2)  Now go to the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/) and put the web site address in the search field.  Explore - see what the website looked like over time - start with the first available archived date and select others over the lifetime of the web site.  Make some screen shots to show your readers.

 3)  Share your Wayback adventure with us in your own blog post, in a Facebook or google+ post.  Be sure to leave a link in a Comment on this blog.

 Here's mine:

 The Wayback Machine now starts for Genea-Musings (www.geneamusings.com) on 17 May 2008, although I have screen shots from before that date.  Here are some looks at Genea-Musings history:

 *  16 May 2008:

*  7 March 2009:

*  30 June 2010:


*  7 February 2012:



*  21 June 2013:
As you can see, I experimented every year with different color combinations, and got a little fancier with a new Blogger template in 2012 and 2013.  The current template is very similar to the 2013 template - the major exception being the blog title (the font was causing problems with some browsers).

 I'm still using the same picture I started with...and pretty much the same blog description and biography too.  I'm a creature of habit!

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-wayback.html

Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver

Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post.  Or contact me by email at randy.seaver@gmail.com.

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7 comments:

  1. Lois WillisSaturday, August 29, 2015 at 8:17:00 PM PDT

    Here's mine
    http://loiswillis.com/sunday-afternoon-genealogy-fun-the-wayback-machine/

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  2. CarolSaturday, August 29, 2015 at 8:19:00 PM PDT

    I'm in again this week.

    http://reflectionsfromthefence.blogspot.com/2015/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-wayback.html

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  3. Lynn DavidSaturday, August 29, 2015 at 8:24:00 PM PDT

    It took me to this post I made on remote research of libraries:

    http://lijability.livejournal.com/61191.html#cutid1

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  4. Amy UrmanSaturday, August 29, 2015 at 8:41:00 PM PDT

    Here are my Wayback posts from 2012 - thanks for the Saturday Night Fun
    http://thegenealogysearch.blogspot.com/2015/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-wayback.html

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  5. Janice M. SellersSunday, August 30, 2015 at 3:04:00 AM PDT

    I picked one from each year:
    http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2015/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-wayback.html

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  6. Dr. Bill (William L.) SmithSunday, August 30, 2015 at 11:10:00 AM PDT

    I went and looked... had been a while since I'd done that. What fun! Thanks for the reminder, Randy. Not good with screen shots, so I didn't post anything. Dr. Bill ;-)

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  7. NancyTuesday, September 1, 2015 at 9:39:00 PM PDT

    I love your most recent color combinations, Randy. I'm sorry you had to change the font in your header, though. You're very kind to make it easier for your readers, though.

    I'm way late and just posted tonight at http://nancysfamilyhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-wayback-machine-and-late-anniversary.html.

    Thanks for hosting SNGF.

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