Don’t ya love it when you can celebrate an accomplishment? We are just a few days into July and I’m so proud for all of my January – June 2020 digital photos are fully ORGANIZED and part of my photo library collection. I couldn’t be happier! And by organized, I don’t just mean sitting in […]
Digital Photo Organization Happy Dance! Read More »
Are you struggling with how to best wrangle your vast photo collections? Then, you might enjoy hearing the exciting news I have to share! I recently started my “Academy of Legacy Leaders™” initiative as a way to encourage and facilitate legacy sharing; you can join us and become part of our Facebook group – we’d
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Slavery in the United States was officially & legally ended on December 6, 1865, with the ratification of the 13th amendment to the Constitution. But today, June 19th (or Juneteenth), is observed in many places around the country as a commemoration of June 19th, 1865 – which was the day on which the proclamation was
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A piece of advice I like to share with those researching their families is to go after all the vital records you can! Online indexes can be helpful – but getting the actual record is important for many reasons. Last week, my geneafriend, Renate Yarborough-Sanders, and I held the first session of a summer series
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How we manage our photos is an important aspect of doing family history work; whether photos from the past or photos from our present – they all tell stories. Today, Facebook announced that everyone now has the ability to transfer your Facebook photos & videos into your Google Photos account. This is a handy
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For Week 20 of Amy Johnson Crow”s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” series, the theme was “Travel.” This prompted me to go in search of any documentation I had for early travel in my own life. And you know what? I am so fortunate that I have it! At just the tender age of a
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It’s Mother’s Day and I am quite assuredly taking advantage of the day to do something for me. That’s how it should be done, right? So, over the past week or so, I’ve worked on making additional progress with my physical photo organization. I’ve blogged several times about it over the past few months –
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Five years ago, in February 2015, I started Thomas MacEntee’s Genealogy Do-Over and it very much helped me transform my processes for how I record my genealogy files. I made many updates to my processes, and one of those, in particular, has been to move towards using standardized place names. This is interesting to me,
Do You Standardize Your Place Names? Read More »
Today is the culmination of the American Library Association’s National Preservation Week, a week dedicated to ensuring that institutions and individuals are aware of the importance of preserving our items. Seeing to it that my own personal and family items are preserved is a priority for me and I could definitely benefit from more diligence
12 Years Later – A Video Preserved Read More »
So.. here’s a story for the family history – my mother gave herself a middle name this week! For the majority of her life, she has lamented the fact that she did not have a middle name. All of her siblings had one, but yet, she didn’t. I guess it has really had an impact
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