This morning, I upgraded to the latest version of my genealogy software, GRAMPS. I like it so far, some data will have to be manipulated a bit. For example, my birth used to be a date in my profile, now it's an event that myself and my parents attended. It has to be named "birth of ..." so that it's human readable. Otherwise in the list of events, it just shows as being a birth on said date. It's not diminishing the integrity of the work any, but it's good to annotate such things for ease of use. Some may consider this tedious, but it's a major change in the branch of software, and I'm willing to do a little bit of work to keep up. It should be a one-time thing, and the program is definitely better for it.
I consider this good timing, I'll have today and tomorrow to play with the program a bit, so that on Thursday when I go see my sister I can show her how it works and she can help me with stuff.
Since she's 16 years older than me, she's closer to my dad's side of the family (he was second-youngest, so my cousins are about my sisters' age). I'm closer to my mom's side (she was second-oldest, so most of those cousins are about my age). Not that I'm closer to my mom's side than my sister is, she actually lived in Mexico with my grandparents for a while and got to know them.
Maybe she'll have some grandpa stories for me one day, but not this week. She'd probably get emotional about it, and it's not a good time for that.
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