June Genealogy To-Do List

I can’t believe that June is here already!  And our weather recently has been just gorgeous.  I’m making it a point to notice and enjoy the sun and the moderate temperatures.  As you can see, my peony is just about to burst into bloom.

I have continued to add to my side of the cousin residences list but haven’t finished that project.  Turns out that there are a lot of city directories available for Syracuse in the time period we’re looking at.  I also did listen to the audio version of My Promised Land and learned a lot about Israel and its history.  Fascinating, and it kept me listening during my commute for several weeks.  I have been thinking but not doing anything about planning for a research trip to Salt Lake City.

So, in June, I plan to:

1. create a new page of my favorite books, those I have read recently and found helpful in some way with my genealogy research and understanding my families.

2.  start listing/writing what I want to look for in Salt Lake City.  I particularly hope to be able to track some of my English Denman family, and to acquire images for some of the vital records of direct ancestors I haven’t been able to get online.

3.  make a plan for the blog for July.  Since I will be gone the first two weeks, I need to plan ahead and (hopefully) have posts ready to go before I leave.

4.  something that counts as organizing my genealogy files.  I haven’t figured out what yet, but am going to re-watch the video that Dear Myrtle and Cousin Russ put out about researching a single record group.  Perhaps I will take a similar tack and try cleaning up a single record group across all my surnames instead of starting with a surname and cleaning all of it up.  That might make sense