August Genealogy To-Do

Well, the family reunion in July came and went, and was a great time.  There is new information and there are new pictures to integrate into the family tree.  The bonus is that I re-connected with a cousin who is very interested in the family genealogy, and we have a day planned to get together to share files, pictures, information, etc.  What fun!

The newest family tree is coming along nicely, and I have found some good additional information, but it didn’t get quite finalized.  How surprised am I?!  Not!  However, in August that will have to happen, and I need to push on the parents to get pictures to go with the people.  I’m already developing a list for each side, and think I’ll try to make them into checkbox lists for ease of following what I have and get from them.  There is a shower coming up for the couple, and that may allow me to move this project forward.

One of my goals, to start on in August, is to continue indexing for familysearch.  I joined the 3-day marathon in July and enjoyed getting reacquainted with the process even though I didn’t get much done.  I still find using my 25-minute timer and goals a useful strategy and I’m going to try to commit myself to doing one 25-minute period on 3 days a week.  This won’t happen the 2 weeks we are on vacation, but I can work to do it the rest of the month.

Since I have a genealogy play-day planned with our local cousin for a couple of weeks from now, I will also be spending time pulling together the information and documents I want to take to share.  That whould give me plenty to work on for August!

I’ll see you in September!