Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night again –
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) We all have genealogy-related tasks that we “need” to do. What are yours?
2) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link on this post if you write your own blog post.
What do I need to do? Do I have a formal list? Unfortunately, no. However, my list will look a lot like Randy Seaver’s list.
Photographs
- Sort thru photo albums to separate family photos from vacation photos of just scenery.
- Scan family photos
- Make sure all family photos are labeled
- Clean up my files removing duplicate images of the same photo
- Transfer any genealogy related photos from my ‘Pictures’ folder to my genealogy exhibits folder
- Verify that I have shared photos of ancestors on FamilySearch
Go-Over
- Finish converting census facts to residence facts
- Verify that census sources are for digital images of the census versus old handwritten notes
- Create narrative reports for ancestors and siblings of ancestors to check sentence structure and sourcing
- Copy narrative report into WikiTree profiles I manage
- Review Kansas newspaper sources to replace handwritten notes with digital images of the papers have been digitized
Paper Files
- Make sure notes have been scanned
- Update sourcing to today’s standards, making sure pdf file or image is attached to the source
- Discard any handwritten census notes
Travel
- Kansas courthouses to obtain images of deeds and other records to replace sourcing that only referenced an index
- Affiliate libraries or Family History centers to obtain images of land and probate records for my ancestors
- Kansas State Historical Society Archive to obtain images of newspaper items not available digitally
- MidWest Genealogy Library, St. Louis Public Library, county historical societies to continue research especially for my CRAWFORD line
RootsMagic
- Merge Places
- Add abbreviations to places
- Merge Sources
- Merge Citations
- Update sourcing to today’s standards
FamilySearch
- Continue connecting RootsMagic individuals to the FamilySearch tree
- Add photos and images of documents to Memories on FamilySearch
Ancestry
- Continue sharing my RootsMagic tree to Ancestry
- Continue updating research on my 3rd great grandparents
DNA
- Continue verifying ThruLines matches
- Continue adding descendants to my tree
- Continue trying to figure out yDNA matches
Wow! You have a huge list, just with the first three categories. Keep at the scanning – I was very relieved when all my items were finally saved digitally.
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