for all future time for always Have you thought about what happens to your genealogical research? While I have been considering my options, a recent post, Saving My Genealogy Forever, by Hound on the Hunt added another option, Forever. Since I have a lot of digital files in my genealogy folder, using the Forever site …
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Organization
Have you been following all of the Facebook posts about organizing and tracking your genealogy research? If you haven't then you might want to check out some of these posts: The Genealogy Squad - search for 'organizing' posts The Organized Genealogists - check out the files submitted to this group If you haven't joined these or other genealogy groups on …
Buddy File
Do you ever find yourself looking for a picture of an individual in a group and not finding it? Or, do you struggle to find a digital image of a document that someone witnessed? I know I struggle with this issue. That's why Tony Proctor's presentation regarding indexing off file names during last Monday's session …
Learning to Use RootsMagic Lists
Research Logs / To Do Lists When I first started my genealogical research, I had some great mentors that encouraged me to keep a log of all of my research -- including finding nothing (NIL). I was fairly successful at this when doing paper genealogy. When I started using PAF (Personal Ancestral File), I continued …
Elwood Cemetery – What is the evidence?
About a month ago, I discovered my great-great grandfather, Albert Hutchinson, listed on Find a Grave. Albert and his first wife, Julia Harding, have been one of the challenges in my search for the family history. I think I have Julia's heritage figured out but Albert appears to 'just hatch' in Iowa. Both just seemed …
My Dad – Seaman 1st Class
Piecing together dad's military service is a challenge! This is because all of the documents indicate that he graduated from high school while enlisted in the service. His 'Notice of Separation from U.S. Naval Service' indicates he entered active service on 15 Feb 1945 in Gulfport, Miss and served for 1 year, 5 months and …
Who Is Jenny Neal?
This weeks Finally Get Organized checklist deals with applying the Genealogical Proof Standard to four generations on my Crawford line. Basically this involves evaluating the quantity (reasonably exhaustive search) and quality of sources for these four generations. The second part of the task is to re-evaluate how those sources support the events in each life …
Technically – Failed
After a hiatus from actively working on my genealogy, I'm playing catch up. As part of that 'catch-up' process, I've participated in the Genealogy Do-Over and am now participating in 'Finally Get Organized'. I am learning a lot thru these activities and actually making lots of progress on my goal to digitize my files. Since …
Simple – yet Huge
Finally Get Organized Checklist -- Jan 17th - 23rd Only Two Tasks: Transcribe / Refile - Should be manageable, right? Task 2: Take the surname binder for my dad's line and put in chronological order starting with my parent's family at the time of their marriage, working back for 3 older generations. I can happily …
File Types & the Future
As indicated in yesterday's post, Paper Outlasts Digital, my paper documents are outlasting my digital files. Before continuing my scanning project, I wanted to see if I should switch how I'm storing my scanned images. After a quick Google search for 'file formats that last', I found some advice from what I would consider to …