| Do you love researching your family tree? Many | | | | crowded, busy airports. Now, their use has spread |
| years ago, all research was done by hand, | | | | across the spectrum and those who love and |
| painstakingly copied by human hands. Then, the | | | | study genealogy are benefiting as well. |
| birth of the copy machine and wonder of | | | | These hand-held devices or PDAs, evolve as |
| wonders, you could copy records and bring them | | | | quickly as cell phones and you can find them in all |
| home to study. Today, the internet has opened | | | | sorts of shapes and sizes. They come with a |
| up a whole new world to those who love to | | | | stylus or plastic stick that functions as a pencil or |
| study their family tree in the form of hand-held | | | | pen that helps you to point and click, rather than |
| devices that can bring information about their | | | | using clumsy fingers that might not navigate as |
| family tree into their hands - literally at the touch | | | | well. It is literally holding a computer, though be it |
| of a button. | | | | small, in your hand. You can record data and go |
| Now, you can carry all of that wonderful, prized | | | | home from your trip and transfer that data onto |
| information for which you dearly love to stir | | | | your home computer. |
| around in, in your hand with you. While you sit at | | | | The really cool thing about PDAs is that many |
| a doctor's appointment or waiting in the car for | | | | companies sell downloadable books by the |
| someone, you could be researching and reading | | | | thousands which include records of pioneer diaries |
| emails. These portable hand-held devices were | | | | and other historical stories that you can read at |
| originally meant for businessmen and | | | | your leisure, while siting at your next appointment! |
| businesswomen who hated lugging all of their | | | | Go get a new device to read about your family |
| heavy files to and from meetings and through | | | | tree today. |