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I'm Jennifer, and I'm an Occasional Genealogist... sort of. Like many of you, I started as an Occasional Genealogist. I had to squeeze research into my free 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 the interruptions, is mandatory.
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Are you short on time when it comes to your genealogy research? You're an Occasional Genealogist! Here are 50 suggestions for genealogy tasks you can do in 15-minutes or less OR tasks you can break into 15-min…
UPDATE: Some suggestions in posts may no longer be available for AncestryDNA results. This is too massive and changing too fast for me to update everything at this time. There also seems to be a never-ending stream of m…
[If you're reading this because your results appear to indicate something surprising and unpleasant, there are s upport groups and services out there to help you . There are consultation services available to h…
This is the follow-up to the post " Why to Take Genealogy Notes ." That post explained why everyone should take notes, not just record "facts" (i.e., why you need to do more than just attach name…
Reverse genealogy can be a really powerful genealogy technique. A lot of people don't know about it or don't use it as much as they could. This post will look at: What is reverse genealogy …
I have been terrible at taking notes and keeping a research log. The notes I have made are scribbled in a notebook and on scraps of paper. My question is should I go back and put the old notes into a research log or just keep a log going forward? Also how do you organize a log...by person, place? Thanks for your help.
ReplyDeleteA log is less useful if it doesn't contain every source you looked at. That means you do need to add your past information but prioritize logging your research going forward. As far as how to organize it, that's not a simple answer. It depends both on the method you're using and your research. I have so much overlap in my family, I keep one log for everything (in Excel, which makes it pretty easy to deal with so much information). Also remember, you don't have to keep a "log" if you work digitally. A log was designed to deal with the issues with paper. There are alternatives in the 21st century.
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