I don’t remember setting any specific genealogy goals\u00a0 last year.\u00a0 Although about midway through the year I did start trying to clear out some boxes of stuff in my home office.\u00a0 And I have been working at documenting my facts in my family tree.\u00a0 A few years ago we decided to only make positive New Year’s resolutions (like “sleep late on Sundays” or “drink champagne for no reason”).\u00a0 So I’m trying to list my goals (not resolutions!) for my genealogy work in a positive way for the coming year.<\/p>\n
1. I will empty the 3 boxes stacked in the corner of my office.\u00a0 These boxes have been stacked there by the door for much too long – read years.\u00a0 As I noted above, this was a goal for 2009 that only got partially met, so it’s on the list again.\u00a0 These boxes have paper files and pictures (snapshots) from my mother’s, which I inherited in about 1994.\u00a0 I think they’re aged enough to work on now.\u00a0 I actually have started on the biggest box of files, putting papers into protective sleeves (since I think I do better with these in binders rather than hidden in folders).\u00a0 I have discovered that one thing that slows me down is is reading the papers and deciding that they need to be kept or that it is all right to get rid of them (not every letter to the bank or scrap with figuring on it needs to be kept).\u00a0 So now I already have a pile of pages in sleeves that need to be entered into my organizing software and then divided into binders.\u00a0 I’m using Clooz for organizing and like it alot.\u00a0 The first box is about 1\/3 to 1\/2 done.<\/p>\n