My Family History Files

Month: February 2015

  • Task Management?

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    I have a confession. I am a To Do List junkie but a Task Management failure. Have been since… Well, as long as I can remember. I make the lists and then fail to do them. I won’t bore you with the details of how well I can organize but how miserably I fail at…

  • Genealogy Do-Over update

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    I have progressed beyond Week 2 of the Genealogy Do-Over. Well, actually I haven’t progressed much beyond Week 2. I seem to be working on parts of Weeks 3-5 all at once. I got stalled on the Research Log (said in that whiney, dramatic way a child would) which is kinda crucial to moving on.…

  • Part 2 – More Quirks – Section Groups & Sections

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    I have been busy behind the scenes working on updating my old OneNote posts, putting together some new posts and working through the Genealogy Do-Over Topics. The Research Log dilemma has me in a holding pattern where I am currently stuck in the topics for Weeks 3-5. Anne Faulkner’s (Ancestor Archaeology) Do-Over recap post had…

  • A new little leaf

    === Baby Thea arrived today at 8:50 am She weighed 9 pounds, 11 ounces and is 20 inches long. Mom, Dad and baby are all doing fine. I can’t wait to get to California to hold her! === Our little Valentine snuggling in the blanket great-grandma Opal knit for her.

  • Downloading record images to save for a rainy day

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    Updated 6 February 2015: It appears my source of information about the Ancestry free access day was misinformed. The free access appears to be for records in the UK, not access to all Ancestry records. I edited the post to reflect this change. This weekend Ancestry is offering free access to their UK records. I…