The biggest focus of this entire trip is Georgia. The Georgia Archives and the National Archives (Southern) both have branches in Morrow (just south of Atlanta), in the same city, in the same parking lot. If it gets any better, I'm not sure how.
We made our first visit to the Georgia Archives last year and loved researching there. So when Mark said we could come back to research this year, I was not going to argue the point. Sure there are other places I could research, BUT why, when he's offering Georgia, would I argue?
So many brick walls here, so many pieces of missing information to be filled in, ancestors to be discovered. Well here we are, day one of the Georgia Archives research. Lets hope that success awaits us inside these doors. Trust me any goodies I find - YOU will be the first to hear it, right here on this blog. Unless of course you happen to be in the archives when I make my fabulous find!
Stay tuned!
Happy Researching!
Karen
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05 July 2016
09 March 2015
Monday Musings
Spent the weekend on identifying some Ligon's I found on the Georgia death records over at Family Search. I can't say it was easy - but I do love a good challenge.
Out of the eight I started with I have only one I still can't identify and add to my Ligon data base. Not bad for a weekend's work!
I've been working on re-organizing, cleaning, and rethinking how I do some things. I'm also STILL working on all the images I had scanned over the past year. I'm about half way thru, cropping, naming and linking them in my data base as I go.
This doesn't include the several hundred scanned recipes that I am also typing into my cookbook software, where I have well over 100,000 recipes already typed in. I've been collecting recipes for well over 30 years. The newest have images attached as I've found them. Makes for a nice searchable file.
I inherited a new desk (few months ago) from my daughter. It was originally my late father in law's desk so its been around a while. But its HUGE. Lots of room, several drawers and did I say tons of desk top space. So I have room for my dual monitors and more! LOVE IT! One of the best things is the large "file" drawer on the right bottom. I've turned that into my space for the copies or papers & folders I am currently working on. As I am going thru folders in my file cabinet and I find things I want to focus on or look at again, I place them there and I can stay focused without having tons of stuff laying all over my desk. Important!
It's tax time so of course its been busy with tax clients coming & going alot! We've also got a new grandson (#5), Joshua Mark Luotonen who was born January 29th. What a cutie!
Time to get busy - the daily chores are done, time to get focused and get some stuff done.
What challenges are you working on in your genealogy??
Happy Researching!
Karen
Out of the eight I started with I have only one I still can't identify and add to my Ligon data base. Not bad for a weekend's work!
I've been working on re-organizing, cleaning, and rethinking how I do some things. I'm also STILL working on all the images I had scanned over the past year. I'm about half way thru, cropping, naming and linking them in my data base as I go.
This doesn't include the several hundred scanned recipes that I am also typing into my cookbook software, where I have well over 100,000 recipes already typed in. I've been collecting recipes for well over 30 years. The newest have images attached as I've found them. Makes for a nice searchable file.
I inherited a new desk (few months ago) from my daughter. It was originally my late father in law's desk so its been around a while. But its HUGE. Lots of room, several drawers and did I say tons of desk top space. So I have room for my dual monitors and more! LOVE IT! One of the best things is the large "file" drawer on the right bottom. I've turned that into my space for the copies or papers & folders I am currently working on. As I am going thru folders in my file cabinet and I find things I want to focus on or look at again, I place them there and I can stay focused without having tons of stuff laying all over my desk. Important!
It's tax time so of course its been busy with tax clients coming & going alot! We've also got a new grandson (#5), Joshua Mark Luotonen who was born January 29th. What a cutie!
Time to get busy - the daily chores are done, time to get focused and get some stuff done.
What challenges are you working on in your genealogy??
Happy Researching!
Karen
02 October 2014
Overwhelmed? Let's Talk Organization!
Organization is a major issue for a lot of people. I'm not exception. I'm working very hard at organizing some things in my life, but I can tell you right now, it's not easy.
Organization covers alot of ground. It applies to lots of different aspects of our lives. Things that we need to organize in order not to feel overwhelmed can include all sorts of things - for example -
Last year I went thru all my closets (except Mr. Brown Eye's). One closet a week. All items taken out, gone thru. Some stuff donated, some stuff moved to another location, some stuff just tossed in trash. Deciding what I needed, what I didn't was a major chore. But I did it. It's not just about our household organization but our genealogy space organization. So I also did my office closet and desk.
Whether you have a room you call an office or whether you have a corner desk in the living room for your genealogy, organization is a major issue. There is nothing worse, at least to me, to go to a major repository to research, make a MAJOR find, go to type it in your computer data base only to discover its ALREADY THERE!!!!!!!!! And I know that you've done that. We all have. Because we haven't taken the time to stop digging long enough to dig ourselves out of the mess & clutter we call our "office" or "genealogy desk". If we stopped researching, just for a week or two, and took the time to get rid of the piles of papers, the clutter, the mass of disorganization, what a difference it would make in your productivity. Yes, I know its hard!
Just think if your desk wasn't covered in piles of paper you could have a list of exactly what you want to search for. Then when you have 15 minutes to sit down and research, you'll know exactly what you want to look and where! It would make such a difference in how you see things. With a decluttered desk you won't feel so overwhelmed.
There is a Facebook page for genealogy organization, "The Organized Genealogist". It is a closed group, meaning you will have to ask to be included. Keep in mind that reading all the posts can be very overwhelming. But there is alot there, with the focus being on organizing your genealogy. No genealogy surnames or such allowed. Great group.
So what will you take time to organize this week? Have you recently reorganized your genealogy space? Do you wish you had done it sooner?
Organization covers alot of ground. It applies to lots of different aspects of our lives. Things that we need to organize in order not to feel overwhelmed can include all sorts of things - for example -
- Kitchen
- Closets
- Daily Chores
- Computer Files
- Garage
- Collections (in my case my cookbook collection)
- Offices
Last year I went thru all my closets (except Mr. Brown Eye's). One closet a week. All items taken out, gone thru. Some stuff donated, some stuff moved to another location, some stuff just tossed in trash. Deciding what I needed, what I didn't was a major chore. But I did it. It's not just about our household organization but our genealogy space organization. So I also did my office closet and desk.
Whether you have a room you call an office or whether you have a corner desk in the living room for your genealogy, organization is a major issue. There is nothing worse, at least to me, to go to a major repository to research, make a MAJOR find, go to type it in your computer data base only to discover its ALREADY THERE!!!!!!!!! And I know that you've done that. We all have. Because we haven't taken the time to stop digging long enough to dig ourselves out of the mess & clutter we call our "office" or "genealogy desk". If we stopped researching, just for a week or two, and took the time to get rid of the piles of papers, the clutter, the mass of disorganization, what a difference it would make in your productivity. Yes, I know its hard!
Just think if your desk wasn't covered in piles of paper you could have a list of exactly what you want to search for. Then when you have 15 minutes to sit down and research, you'll know exactly what you want to look and where! It would make such a difference in how you see things. With a decluttered desk you won't feel so overwhelmed.
There is a Facebook page for genealogy organization, "The Organized Genealogist". It is a closed group, meaning you will have to ask to be included. Keep in mind that reading all the posts can be very overwhelming. But there is alot there, with the focus being on organizing your genealogy. No genealogy surnames or such allowed. Great group.
So what will you take time to organize this week? Have you recently reorganized your genealogy space? Do you wish you had done it sooner?
15 February 2012
Wedding Wednesday
He stated that he married her to protect her. The image you see here is how most of their photo's were. At the time of her death in 2001 they had been married to each other for 68 years.
Both are gone now, and they are very much missed. They leave behind a multitude of grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. What a legacy!
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