The Portal to Texas History and Airtable
I'm currently taking a class on Airtable taught by Amberly Beck. It's a seven-week course, and I feel it's been intense. There are parts I have had a very difficult time grasping, even after watching the recording again...slowly. This week I decided to dive into creating a table of newspaper articles regarding my paternal Threet line. I used the site, " The Portal to Texas History ." This site was introduced to me by my friend Lisa. I set my search parameters, and 55 articles came up from various newspapers, including the Honey Grove Signal-Citizen s, The Bonham Herald , and The Leonard Graphic , among others. I revisited some of the information a few times to determine what I wanted the Airtable base to do for me. In some of the tables, I'm still trying to figure this out. The data entry has been time-consuming, but I have found some great information to use for the story I'm writing about my Dad and his family. The tables and information I'm com...