Stay focused and happy while exploring your roots
When I started Organize Your Family History in 2012, the home page contained full posts, four to a screen. Without clicking, you could read the four most recent blog posts. You could click back, one screen at a time, and read four posts at a time. Last September, I changed it to post excerpts. When […]
Until now, most of my genealogy research has been conducted at my desk, using online sources. I did have the pleasure of visiting the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in February for a couple of hours. But for the most part, I search away on the various databases I have access to. Yesterday […]
I’ve just created an Organize Your Family History mailing list and I hope you’ll join it! Just click on the Mailing List tab on the black navigation bar at the top of this page and give me your name and email address. On the last day of each month, I’ll send out an email with […]
Being a professional organizer, I actually love organizing my family history research. (Usually.) But I certainly understand that for most people it’s not the most exciting or glamorous aspect of doing genealogy research. A week ago, in my mid-quarter progress report, I realized that I was falling behind on the organizing goals I’d set in […]
Today for some reason I googled “Flipboard for genealogy.” Flipboard is the iPad app that creates beautiful magazines on your iPad (or other tablet, I believe). I don’t really have my mind wrapped around it completely (and when I do, I’ll write about it here, I promise), but the top hit in my google search […]
At the end of last year, I devised a scheme for 2014 in which I’d focus on one of my family lines per quarter. The idea was to keep my research focused and to have a list of organizing-related tasks for each line that I’d want to have completed by the end of the quarter. […]
