Welcome to my New
Adventure,
I started my family
history search many years ago and have to say that I still consider myself an
amateur in most areas. I can find many records or sources for records online
but when it comes to citing my sources in the past I have left that pretty much
alone, relying on what is cited on sites like ancestry.com. Recently I have
taken up the challenge to re-organize my research, to cite my sources, to make
it so I am not constantly wondering where did I leave off. Source citing is not
the only component of genealogy research that I have in the past left to
itself, I have also been very lax on my research journal. Where, when, who,
what did I search and why.
To solve all these
issues and to create a better family history, whether I ever publish or not, I
have decided to go back to the beginning for the most part. Find those
documents and facts over again and cite them. To further my progress I am doing
a few new things:
1. Using Microsoft OneNote to organize my entire Genealogy world. I
started with this idea a few years ago, but ended up having to replace my
laptop and never got back to it, until recently. I looked into using Evernote
but decided that OneNote gives me more options to organize my files according
to the way I have been doing things, only digitally…..I'll get back to this in
another post.
2. Starting a new tree on ancestry
and in my Family Tree Maker 2012 software. I love the fact that I can sync
these together.
3. Listening and reading more on
Genealogy Research, especially citing sources. So far I have just recently
started listening to podcasts and watching some of the many mini videos on
genealogy research how to's….we live in a very rural area, which make internet
videos and such a bit of a problem, as our internet is limited.
4. Starting a new blog, all about
my genealogical journey's. I hope to include much of what I am finding as I go
along in the hope that I will be able to meet and help other family members
with there research, but I also hope to include resources and other items that
have and will help me along the way.
5. Organizing my digital files to
coordinate with my OneNote Notebooks.
6. Building my genealogy book
library. I love books could probably spend my whole paycheck on them were it
feasible, but since it isn't I will have to build my library one or maybe two
books at a time.
Hopefully, with the
new plan in place and the new to me resources I can have a better work flow,
make more progress, track my research and cite my sources. If you have any
tips, hints or resources that have been a big help to you and would like to
share please drop me a note via email or the comments box below.
Danica
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