{"id":6139,"date":"2015-09-30T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T21:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2015-09-30T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:22:49","slug":"october-genealogy-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/october-genealogy-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"October Genealogy To-Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judy and I had a fun and successful trip to \"FHL<\/a>Salt Lake City and I came back enthusiastic about my finds and determined to continue to pursue the ones I haven\u2019t yet found.\u00a0 Tops on that list is my grandfather\u2019s birth registration which should exist but is being elusive.\u00a0 I am also happy to say that I have managed since returning home to add full filenames to each file, to add metadata giving the microfilm number etc. for each image, and \u2013ta da!!- to both file the image in the correct family folder on my computer and connect it to the person in my Roots Magic database.\u00a0 I am habitually slow about doing this final processing of my research trip finds and I was determined this time to do better.\u00a0 A pat on the back for Pat!<\/p>\n

The one remaining piece of work is to follow a procedure I picked up from the Facebook group Evernote Genealogists<\/a>.\u00a0 Starting with the microfilms on which I did not find the record I was looking for, I am creating a new note in Evernote with the film number and the person I was searching for along with a tag Not Found.\u00a0 This may turn out to be a research log system I can actually use and keep up.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n

So for October, my first goal is to finish that project, which will likely include my usual need to re-work my Evernote notebooks and tags, and excursions into familysearch.org looking for related people or other films of the same information.<\/p>\n

The other project I hope to start is a 25 x 25.challenge.\u00a0 I got the idea from Janine Adams over at her blog, Organize Your Family History<\/a> in a post about how she is using a challenge<\/a>.\u00a0 The idea, as I understand it, is to challenge yourself to do x minutes of genealogy research for x days \u2013 meant to help with the problem of finding time for genealogy research.\u00a0 In my case the problem is mostly in the other direction (spending too much time) but in not being focused enough \u2013 chasing those Bright Shiny Objects instead of the original goal.\u00a0 So I am thinking that committing to one or two specific tasks for 25 minutes a day for 25 days in a row might be a solution.\u00a0 My specific projects are to finish transcribing the William Denman will I got a year ago, and to transcribe the Michael Marten will.\u00a0 The Denman will is mostly done so more an editing project, going back and trying to read handwritten words I wasn\u2019t sure of or couldn\u2019t make out at all the first time.\u00a0 As I remember, the Marten will is luckily in much easier to read handwriting, so there is a chance I can actually get it done too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judy and I had a fun and successful trip to Salt Lake City and I came back enthusiastic about my finds and determined to continue to pursue the ones I haven\u2019t yet found.\u00a0 Tops on that list is my grandfather\u2019s …<\/p>\n

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