Well, although I got my \u201cnew family\u201d chart finalized (and printed beautifully), I haven\u2019t made a decision about a way to share all the information with the couple.\u00a0 In the past, I have made a sharable CD from RootsMagic but it turns out that sometimes that isn\u2019t very viewable by the younger folks.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what the issue is but I hate to present something to someone that frustrates them!\u00a0 So I\u2019m considering a website, maybe through RootsMagic, or maybe with a domain name all their own.\u00a0 Or maybe, in the end, I\u2019ll just make another sharable CD and hope they can access it.<\/p>\n
Related to this, I would like to make a small (modest) new family tree for the baby who was just born, with pictures attached to parents and grandparents.\u00a0 This would be an extension of the tree I made for her parents when they got married a couple of years ago.\u00a0 I\u2019m envisioning something that could be hung on a wall in the baby\u2019s room and looked at and talked about as she grows.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe possible for her first Christmas?<\/p>\n
My goals for November are relatively modest since the holidays are coming, and I\u2019m hosting a family Thanksgiving this year.\u00a0 First, I will continue to (go back to working on) organizing my digital files, naming them consistently in the way I have decided works best for me.\u00a0 This is one of the tasks I do by 25 minute chunks of time, since that is a reasonable time limit for my frustration level.\u00a0 Of course, I sometimes cannot resist going off on the tangent of looking to see if there is an update to my file, a digital image that wasn\u2019t available before.\u00a0 I must admit that many of the files I am just now organizing are a number of years old (and not-yet connected to an individual or event in my database), so it makes some sense to me to see if there is more than an index available for example.\u00a0 And often enough, there is.\u00a0 Familysearch.org, for example, continues to digitize birth marriage and death registers which provide more information than the index does.\u00a0 On the other hand, this takes extra time and draws me down various rabbit holes.<\/p>\n
The other tasks I need to remember to do are the computer clean-up ones:\u00a0 backing up my blog posts and my genealogy databases, and scanning my harddrive for files that could be deleted and cleaning up the registry file.\u00a0 I have forgotten a couple of months over the summer and need to get back in the habit of doing these tasks on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, although I got my \u201cnew family\u201d chart finalized (and printed beautifully), I haven\u2019t made a decision about a way to share all the information with the couple.\u00a0 In the past, I have made a sharable CD from RootsMagic but …<\/p>\n