Last week, Lisa Louise Cook of the Genealogy Gems Podast released a wonderful video in the premium section of her web site which explains how to create your own Google Gadget using a text editor tool provided by Google.

This got me thinking.  So I spent a few minutes reading about the Google Gadgets API and quickly discovered that there would not be much of a learning curve for me to learn how to create them myself.  After all, I run a technology business that specializes in web-based programming.  I better be able to handle this! The hardest part was deciding which one to build first.

Anybody who has HTML and/or Javascipt deveopment skills and a HTML/Text editor can create the Gadgets.  It really wasn’t hard.  Maybe in a future post, I’ll give you directions on how to do them yourself, but for now, here are the link to the few I made last night.

• Age Difference Calculator
• Google News Archives Search
• Sirius People Finder
• Tombstone Calculator

Or visit our new Google Gadgets Library Page at

• http://www.siriusgenealogy.com/google_gadget_library.php

If you have any suggestions for new ones, feel free to send them to me through our contact form on the “About” page.

Other useful Links

• iGoogle
• Google Gadgets Directory