For many people, this is a five-day weekend. A glorious expanse of time that might include some family history research. While doing your research is certainly important, I encourage you this weekend to also spend a little time organizing it.
I’m not suggesting that you pull everything out and try to organize it all. If you do that, you risk not finishing and ending up with a bigger mess than when you started.
Rather, I’m suggesting you take a look at your genealogy space and/or records and visualize some little projects. Do you have a group of photos you can organize? Some filing you can do? Some order to create on your hard drive? Maybe you need to create a research plan or put together a comprehensive to-do list.
My point here is that when it comes to organizing your family history, you probably have a whole series of tiny organizing projects you can do a little at a time. If you spend 30 minutes each day this weekend (and perhaps every weekend), you could get a surprisingly large amount of organizing done.
Take a look around and spot a small project. Write it down and look for another. Do this a few times and you have a great (hopefully not overwhelming) organizing task list.
I’ll be doing the same this weekend. Happy organizing!
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