User:Hanna5974

Welcome
I began my genealogy experiences with a beginners' class and BYU travel study to England and Scotland with Professor Ben Bloxham when I was 20 years old. I was immediately hopelessly hooked! I have a B.S and M.Ed in elementary education and taught Gifted and Talented children for 18 years. When I finished my first degree at BYU, I went home to California to look for work, and learned that, to get a teaching license there, I needed a degree in something besides education (go figure). It was when I returned to BYU for that additional degree that I began working as a secretary for Family History Services, the university's arm for professional research. Eventually, I completed an internship in U.S. research, and a second internship in German and Swiss research. I married and had four children, working very part-time as a professional genealogist until my last child was in the fourth grade, and then began an odd mixture of half-time teaching and half-time professional research. I used to joke that it was the perfect mix for me--teaching was more social than research, but the dead were better behaved than kids! In addition to U.S. and German research, I have done English, Scottish, Canadian, Slovakian, Greek (for a friend), and I am working on conquering Danish research (for my own research). My husband and I both retired a couple of years ago, probably just to be able to spend more time with our six darling, hilarious grandchildren. Since then,I have done a little paid research when begged to but, find that I really love teaching other people how much more than being paid. I think teaching and genealogy both have played a major role in my life, and I have fun combining them. Kathi Hanna, new Wiki Support Missionary

Broken link on Zell parish page
Hello Hanna5794

Thanks for asking me about the Zell parish page. The broken link is just a link to the (as of yet uncreated) parish page for Reichenburg. I haven't created any of the parish pages for Canton Schwyz - I'm still working on Zürich and Bern pages. I want to keep the links there so that when I create the page, it'll automatically point there, instead of having to go back and look for the pages and add the links later. Does this make sense?

--Daniel

Removing Free
Hi Kathi!

I noticed you are removing all the references to Free on Historical Records links on the State Online Genealogy Records pages. I had been going through the pages standardizing all the HR links with Free since it was on some links and not on others. Is there a reason you are doing this? Were you instructed to remove those references to FamilySearch's free records?

-- Linda

Hi Linda,

Sorry I missed your note. I guess Danielle Batson has discussed this issue with you. Yes, I was instructed to remove those. Apparently doing that has been debated back and forth for some time. I'm not sure why, just soldiering on and following orders! Hanna5974