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Organization

Command Your Research: 3 Tactics for Organizing Your Military Ancestors

As family history researchers, organizing our military ancestors is vital for efficient and effective research. During Memorial Day, we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service, and many of us have multiple military ancestors in our family trees. By organizing them, we gain quick visibility into who those family members are, thus enabling […]

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Efficiency Hack: Pomodoro Your Genealogy

As a family history enthusiast, isn’t it so easy to get carried away as we travel up and down the branches of our family trees? Sometimes, that’s good because it can lead to serendipitous findings. Sometimes, however, it leads to HOURS of time lost, right?  If you can relate, then this post is for you!

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How Notion Helps Me Organize My Genealogy

Are you looking to be more organized with your genealogy and family history work? If so, you may want to watch this video of my friend Julie (of Genealogy In Action) and I did recently. We chatted about how I we use Notion to stay organized and we are delighted to share it with you.

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My Key to Organization – Building A Second Brain

Information. Genealogists and family historians are swimming in it all.of.the.time. You have many ways of managing all of that info you consume. What if I told you that you probably have not even begun to wrangle it all as best as you could? Strong words, eh? With strong words come strong conviction. You see, I have recently

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Two Reasons Why Adding Metadata to Your Family History Photos Is Important

I was prompted to do this post after getting some questions last week about metadata as it applies to our family history photos.  I had to share because this is a topic where you may not realize you have an issue until it’s too late. When it comes to organizing your digital family photos, here

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Genealogy Recap 2021, Genealogy Goals 2022

Do you set goals for your family history? As 2021 is now over and today is the first day of 2022, I thought this would be the perfect day to recap last year and set goals for next year. My friend, Julie Cahill Tarr, recently posted about her 2022 goals and she inspired me to

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Will I Hear My Grandmother’s Voice?

This week, I’ve done something I am anxiously excited for. And, I am hoping that I get what I hope I get! Let me tell you more… I do not have a VCR – probably, a majority of us don’t, right? But, I do have some VHS tapes. And, I have been meaning to get

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Mini-Series Announcement – National Preservation Week

Each year in April, the American Library Association has National Preservation Week – a week designed to help share information and resources for preserving our collections.  Much of the emphasis is on collections in libraries, museums, and archives, though of course, we all have collections in our homes too! Especially those of us with interests

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Digital Photo Organization Happy Dance!

​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

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Announcing the Family Photo Legacy Platform Selection Series

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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