It all started with a phone call.
A phone call from my sibling. When I hung the phone up at the end of our conversation my son, who was four years old then, asked who I was talking to. When I told him with whom I had been talking to he looked confused and said, “Who?” We live far from all our family, the closest being 283 miles away in Fruit Heights, UT, and the farthest being my twin at 2,150 miles away in New Jersey (miss you Mikey!) , that’s if you don’t count my oldest brother working in South America six months out of the year. Merely hanging family portraits on my wall wouldn’t do, it’s stale and uninspired (which is the reason they were not already on the walls in the first place). There are endless possibilities on how to do the display, but this is how I did it: You will need: Wood blocks Sand paperDamp clothGel mediumPaint brushNames, printed backwardPhotographsWaterDouble-sided foam squares1/8″ pin-striping tapeScissorsPocket knife or razor box openerTape measureLevels Like this:
By Barry J.
Ewell Starting out organized is easier than getting organized later on. It didn’t take long before my own research became weighed down with pedigree charts, family group records, to-do lists, research logs, documents, notes, and research tools. I was robbing myself of the precious research time because I spent hours looking for what I knew I had and duplicating research I had already done. When I became organized, I was able to Know exactly what information I had for each ancestor,Have a complete list of information I was missing for each ancestor,Know exactly what resources I had checked and results of my research,Know every book I had ever searched,Remember who I had contacted and the response I had received, andEasily file new research findings. Choose an organization system that genealogists use. My recommendation. I have used the concepts to organize my paper files, computer files, and oral and personal history files.
Color-coded Genealogy Research Filing System Step 1. There are lots of different genealogy checklists available out there for tracking whether or not you’ve located a particular record for any given ancestor.
I was looking for one because I wanted to reorganize my genealogy research. I’m peripherally following what’s going on with the Genealogy Do Over/Go Over that many are participating in, but I’m fairly busy with my day job right now, so I’m only planning on completing just the first part of the project – categorizing what I’ve already collected in a spreadsheet and making sure I have copies of all digital records saved according to my filing system. I’m actually going to actively try to restrain myself from going down the rabbit hole of additional research until I have everything cataloged and filed properly (best laid plans – I don’t know how successful I’m going to be because it’s the research part that’s irresistible and how I ended up in this disorganized mess.)
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