Important
Announcement: Genies meeting is Friday,
Jan 18 due to the holiday on the 3rd Monday.
Today we find ourselves in the first week of a
new year, a time when many think of goals and resolutions. I’m not talking about gyms and diets but ways
to move forward in our genealogy. As I
talk to Genies, the same topics keep surfacing, the ones that we are having
trouble solving.
Organizing is the elephant in the room. It’s the one thing that makes people think:
if I could just get organized, then I could get on to researching my ancestors.
Last year I posted Organizing: Tips 2018. I think this is a good place to start, if I do
say so myself. Go to the Genies blog and
you will find it on the left-hand column along with some other pages about
organizing. https://ferndalegenies.blogspot.com/ Remember these are just tips; they are not
rules. Everyone stresses that you need
to develop a system that works for you and the way you think and work. And don’t think I am doing everything in “tips”
or doing anything perfectly. We’re all
just doing our best.
A popular blogger Lisa Lisson is an organizing
junkie (her words, not mine). You can
start here:
In her menu bar is a “Blog Index” tab and then
“Organizing Your Genealogy”. She has
many posts on the topic. It seems important to me to pin down what
your personal organizing problem is and go after that specifically.
Another blogger and podcaster I like is Amy
Johnson Crow. This week she is
interviewing Janine Adams who is a professional organizer. Here’s a link to the blogpost and you will
find the podcast imbedded there. https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/organizing-genealogy-files/ Usually her podcasts are about 20 minutes
but this one is 34.
So I went to find out about Janine
Adams. She blogs at https://organizeyourfamilyhistory.com/. On December 21st she blogged about
her 2018 goals where her first goal was “Come up with a scheme for
keeping me focused”. We could all use
some of that. Also she has a 30 x 30 challenge. Do genealogy research for 30 minutes each day
for 30 days. When I’m looking at blogposts,
I like to see what readers are saying in their comments.
So get ready to tell us what your biggest
challenges are and we will try to help at the Genies meetings. Here are a few of mine: using a research plan to know what to do
next, using consistent file names for my computer files, photos. I’ve made a little progress but
they are not solved yet.
Lastly, here’s a
free 14-page collection of organizing articles you can download from Family
Tree Magazine: https://www.familytreemagazine.com/freebie/family-tree-tips-23-secrets-organize-genealogy/
Some other topics
Genies are talking about are DNA (of course), Writing, and RootsMagic (or other
desktop software). Let me know what challenges
you have and we’ll tackle them at the Genies meeting.
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