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I'm Jennifer, and I'm an Occasional Genealogist... sort of. For over ten years I've been a professional genealogist. I started researching my own family nearly 30 years ago. Like many of you, I started as an Occasional Genealogist. I had to squeeze research in while in school and while working full-time. Then I got my first genealogy job and for awhile, it was genealogy all the time. Now I have two kids. I do other people's genealogy constantly but my own? Coming up with ways to do great genealogy, despite all the interruptions, is now mandatory.

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Digitizing Genealogy Records: DIY

Last spring I wrote a post about subscription savings , digitizing records, and Evernote . It was actually a combo post of three topics/ideas that segued from one to the other but that I didn't think each had sufficient material for a post. I'm more verbose than I thought. Now there are three posts. Here i…
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Why You Need a Genealogy To-do List

Should you create a genealogy to-do list? Yes. I think you should and there's a surprising reason it's so important for Occasional Genealogists AND often genealogists (in other words, a reason for ANY genealogist). Decision fatigue. That phrase was actually the note I made to myself, so I'd kn…
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Make Your Genealogy Skills Go Pro

How do professional genealogists accomplish so much more? Is it simply knowledge? Do they know more than you? Is it just experience? Have they been clued-in to some secret or magic formula? The magic theory seems to be pretty popular. In fact, it seems to be the belief held by many people that hire a professional ge…