Documents Storage

My find of the day is Filesanywhere.com. I've been looking for a place to park my genealogy documents that would be accessible from the Blog while we're in the UK. I wanted one that would allow me to not only retrieve my documents, but also allow me to view them without using a magnifying glass. Filesanywhere.com seems to fit the bill perfectly. You can set up an account for free that allows you one gigabyte of storage space and allows you to pretty much store any type of file in easily-accessible folders. You can do just about anything to your documents that you could do on your own computer. There's also a separate section for listing your contacts, storing your photos, and a couple of dozen other activities. Check it out.

Thomas Rhydderch, Master Blacksmith

Thomas Rhydderch was a master blacksmith. On the 1851 census he's listed as living with his family in Govilon, some 5 miles from Blaenavon in Monmouthshire county. In this area could be found the Garn-DDyrys Forge, where pig iron was converted to wrought iron. I suspect that Thomas may well have been employed there.

Counting Down

This morning my computer's countdown clock says I have 2 months, 18 days, 6 hours, and a swiftly-decreasing number of minutes and seconds before my retirement day. I've spent much of the morning doing some packing in my office while keeping an eye out for my international driver's license, which I can't seem to find. Other than the license, everything is proceeding smoothly. We finally bought the GPS, a Garmin Nuvi 370, which comes complete with European and North American maps. We haven't tried to navigate ourselves yet, but Concetta says the little device is pretty easy and intuitive to use.

We finally have all the various passes that I had determined we needed. We have the Heritage Pass which supposedly gets you into 800 different castles, museums and historic houses throughout the UK. We have the pass that will allow us to ride the tube in London as well as the Red double-decker buses. We also have a pass that promises to gain us entrance to attractions in London not accessible with the Heritage pass.

Now, I'm researching the idea of joining "Globalbagtag.com," a company that issues metal tags for your bag that, if your bag goes astray, allows airline personnel to go to Global's web site and pull up your itinerary so they can see where you're supposed to be at any given time. Pretty neat if it works.

Obviously, with only a little less than three months to go before we leave, it's time to get serious and start checking off must-do items from the list. I think we're pretty far along, but seldom does a day go by when I don't think of something I've forgotten. Stay tunned.