Today, December 11th is the death anniversary of my paternal aunt Ella Levon Koonce. She passed away on this day in 1984 at the young age of 27. I was 9 years old but remember the day well. My middle name, Yvette, was inspired by her middle name — hers was supposed to be Yvonne […]
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Intro: This post is #4 is a series I am doing on my digital photo/file organization. In previous posts, I covered how I gather my photos into one place, how I name my files, and I described my backup plan. Here, I will discuss the structure I have set up for my files. There are many
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In my ongoing quest for improved organization, I’ve picked up a new system – it’s called the “Sunday Basket” and it is designed by Lisa Woodruff of Organize 365. The premise of the system is simple – get a basket and every time you remember you have something to do – you put it in
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I just love a great genealogy hunt and last night I had another chance to go on one! This past weekend, while visiting a local antique store, I found a picture of a man identified as Lt. William L. Quinn. It was taken at the Stanley Paulger studio in Montgomery, Alabama. The picture included this
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At the end of August, I went on a nice, long 2.5-week vacation – it was lovely! Half of my trip was dedicated to visiting my Koonce genealogy friends in Wisconsin. I’ve blogged before about them – John & Dan – and our excursions in Tennessee to do Koonce genealogy research (here and here). I
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As I write this, we are in the midst of photo saving month here in September – which is perfect timing for this current post as I continue in the sharing of my digital photo management processes. Post 1 was about gathering photos in one place and in Post 2 I shared my file naming
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This post is part of a series I am writing on my digital photo/file organization, based on a presentation I recently presented. I first gave an overview of the talk. I then shared information on taking the first step in photo organization by gathering all files in one place. Here, I will talk about how
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Last week, I posted about a presentation I did for the Genealogical Society of Maury County on digital photo management and shared some of the details of my presentation. In follow-up, I thought it would be helpful to share details of my specific approach. This is the first in a series of posts where I
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Back in March of 2014, I blogged about a set of medical appointment cards that my maternal grandmother kept throughout her lifetime (note – most of the images in that post are broken – I need to fix that). The cards are amazing if you ask me, because while they appear, at first, to just
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This evening, I gave a presentation to the Genealogical Society of Maury County about managing digital photos. We had a great crowd and there were many questions that came up from the group. I covered 4 principles in my talk: Saving photos Organizing photos (including how & why to add metadata) Accessing your photos Preserving
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