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My Parents’ Baby Photos

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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Building A Community

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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Reducing My Research Clutter

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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Hello 2020 – New Year, Fresh Start

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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Telling Our 2018 Story: My Family Yearbook is Drafted!

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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My Digital Photo Organization: Principle 5 – Add Metadata

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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My Christmas Present to Myself – Organizing My Physical Photos

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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Blogging Equals Cousin Bait

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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Genealogy Gifts for Family: Yearly Calendars

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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Improving My Forever Storage Photo Organization Workflow

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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