Family Tree Frog

  Have you set New Year's Resolutions for Family History? Did you watch Thomas MacEntee's great talk on the MyHeritage Facebook page? He suggested keeping it real, which I think is a brilliant suggestion.  We are all guilty of setting goals that are too big.  Keep them bite-size.   What will help us get there?  A tree with lots of branches of course and good foundations or roots ! Do you have a budget?  Do you have a strategy?  Are you measuring your results?  If not, how will you know you are making progress?   I have been so inspired by the progress of other genealogists with their scanning, filing, writing and so on. Shauna Hicks  and Jennifer Jones spring to mind. Budget I need to focus on the areas that Thomas suggested: Organization Workflow Information Methodology Education and Legacy I think all of us focus on that last area in a big way.  We want to leave a lasting legacy but are overwhelmed by how much there is to do and ...

I woke up this morning a bit like a kid on Christmas Day.   I had worked like a navvy yesterday to try and clean up my desk so that I could be prepared for the Genealogy Do Over.    I have literally put all my old research behind me.   Look! See!  There are all my old lever arch files.  I won't show you all the crap that is now lying in the hallway waiting to be chucked.   Honestly - I am in heaven.   This was my mother's desk.  And I've had that bookcase on top of it for the past 20 years. It worked well but I do love having all the desk space to work on rather than only half of it. The way it is positioned now, I can talk to Robert in the kitchen face-on, if I need to....and if he can hear me, over the sizzling saucepans....see?  And I can also see people straight away when they come to the front door.  Yay!   I can also see all the photo albums that need to be sorted...oh well... you...