Family Tree Frog

Last month , Thomas MacEntee of Geneabloggers advised the Genealogy community that he was starting over.  He invited us to join him on a 13-week journey where we put our old research to one side (physical and digital) and....start again. Thomas has set up a Facebook Page and a new website  with a schedule and resources.  You can sign up to receive Genealogy Do-Over emails here. This kinda appeals to me.  I've always set New Year's Resolutions despite my negative inner voice forecasting doom and gloom.  And yes I'm not a shining example of success - I'm still overweight and I could do more exercise and I could drink less alcohol but hey....if you don't set goals you don't have a direction do you?  And in life I choose to lean on the side of positive rather than negative.  So I'm in Thomas!   I was going to say "In like Flynn".  That prompted to ask myself the question "Who was Flynn anyway?".  Being a good Genealogist, I ...

Today's the day to apply a bit of spit and polish to the old blog I say! Earlier this week fellow blogger Geniaus told us about fixing up her blog and asked for feedback.   This led to me calling for other geneabloggers who might be interested in joining in the same sort of exercise...giving each other feedback and making adjustments/improvements to their blog.    I have suggested that we say one thing we LOVE about the blog and one thing that we think could be improved/lost/added. There are six of us so far who are prepared to take the plunge and it's by no means too late if you want to join in too.  Just add your name to the link below and post your comments on each other's blogs. By the by, I've also discovered that the lovely Thomas MacEntee and Lisa Alzo from Hack Genealogy are running a Blogging Boot Camp this weekend.   This ties in nicely with Shauna Hicks suggestion for today to attend or listen to a webinar or Google + ...