The winter storm Goliath lived up to its name. It has caused widespread destruction from tornadoes and flooding. While watching news feeds and praying for those affected, the images are a vivid reminder of what can quickly be taken away.
Even though I plan to continue learning by participating in the 2016 Genealogy Do-Over and the Finally Get Organized projects, my primary focus for the year will be to continue working to get all of my genealogy ‘stuff’ preserved.
I’ve already ‘preserved’ the results of my research by publishing my tree online. A basic version of my tree is on Ancestry as HeartlandGenealogy_Oct2015, while a more detailed version complete with footnotes is available at my Heartland Genealogy site.
However, the photos and documents that support that tree aren’t online. Unfortunately, the vast majority of those documents are stored in my filing cabinets and in photo albums and memory books. Thus, my primary goal for 2016 is to
- digitize all of that paper
As I proceed thru the digitization process, I plan to continue finding ways to share my data so that the family photos and documents and the sources behind my research are not lost.