In previous posts, I’ve shared the work I am doing to organize my photos – both physical and digital, including historical and present-day photos. A great joy for me in that process has been visiting with all of the pictures in my collection, talking with my family and friends about our photos, and just having […]
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I took a plunge this weekend for something I have had under contemplation for a while now. I created a Facebook group to establish a community of individuals interested in family history and/or general memory keeping activities! Over the past 15 years, I have been sharing my experiences via this blog and my miscellaneous family
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As I get started into this new year, I continue to remain focused on reducing the clutter I have in my genealogy files. A few days ago, I took some time to deconstruct a research binder I put together for a part of my genealogy research. This was a binder I initially created about 14
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Happy New Year! It’s now 2020 and we are beginning a new decade! 2019 was a great year for me with regard to my family history and genealogy activities and I wanted to share a brief recap. Some of my highlights include: Presenting for the Tennessee State Library & Archives, the Maury County Genealogical Society, and
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As this year comes to a close, I find myself still struggling to catch up for 2018! But that’s okay, I am about to go to bed now an accomplished, happy camper! In 2017, I re-found my love for digital scrapbooking when a friend told me about the Project Life app by Becky Higgins. The
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Intro: This post is #5 is a series I am writing about my digital photo/file organization processes. In previous posts, I covered 1) how I gather my photos into one place, 2) how I name my files, 3) how I backup my digital photos, and 4) how I establish a structure for my files. Here,
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Today is Christmas and one of the things I enjoy about the time off work and spending it with my family is having time to do things for myself too. As my Christmas present to myself, I buckled down the past two days and spent HOURS making more progress with my physical photo collection. I
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Earlier this month, at my genealogy society’s annual Show & Tell (the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society), I chose to share a story of how a blog post I made resulted in great additional knowledge about a family member! In April 2017, I blogged a discovery I made about the wife
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Off and on for the past 5 years, I have been making yearly 12×24 calendars for members of my family. I started back in 2014 and while I try to get it done each year, I have missed a few in this time frame primarily because I just have not always gotten myself organized enough
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Don’t you love it when you feel like you’ve made an accomplishment? I’ve been working intensely on increasing efficiency in my digital photo management this week and I hit a milestone last night – I couldn’t be happier! Let me explain… This past July I shared my latest upgrade to my photo organization strategy —
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