Motivation Monday – January Goal Review/ February Goals
January flew by and now it is time to look over what was accomplished and what was not. Here are my January goals: Smaller Goals: Join 2 genealogical societies.(I joined GRIVA and the Virginia Genealogical Society) Attend 1 Rootsweb webinar (Took the first one in the series and learned some basics) Post 3 blog posts per week. (Did this. Hope everyone enjoyed!) Larger Goals: spend 2 hours per week digitizing and organizing my records and notes (Did some, but not every week) order the first deed book for my “Opus” from LDS (Can’t seem to get over there, but I promise I will this week) spend 2 hours per week on inputting Briley deeds from Pitt County (I have most of them photocopied) into Deed Mapper (This may have to wait until after April) Look for more “modern” records … Read entire article »
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What I am reading – Take Back Your Life: Using MS Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized
I have been reading an organizing book this month. I need some ideas to go paperless even more and wanted to learn how to use what I already have (Office with Outlook 2007 soon to be udgraded to 2010) more efficiently. So, while surfing my library site I found this book: Take Back Your Life: Using MS Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized by Sally McGhee. When this book was written, Outlook was then in the 2003 iteration, however, the concepts she uses are easily adaptable to my 2007 version. She has an updated version for Outlook 2007, but I went with what our library had, and will check out the other book later. This book has some very useful ideas that I have already started to incorporate into my everyday. … Read entire article »
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Mapping Monday – William Brierly to William Brierley, son
Here is the crux of my Briley/Brierly problem… Just how many William Brierly’s in a row am I related too? I am thinking 3, and upon further inspection, seem to find evidence supporting it. I only just realized that William Brierly, the father in this deed, has a different mark than his son. In this case, they do not use an X (like so many other of my ancestors). The older William uses a stylized W and the younger one flips it over. I have not really started the cataloging of these deeds. It is one of my long term projects to get started on sometime this spring when our renovation is finished. Here is my transcription of the deed (I tried not to edit it too much): Pitt County, NC Deed Book … Read entire article »
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Getting ‘Round to Research
I was hoping I would have the time this week to get out and do some research at the Library of Virginia. However, middle school exams to be taken by a surly pre-teen and a house rennovation have intruded on my regular schedule and threw me off. I will get out to the LDS library to order a film tomorrow and maybe do some census research. I am trying to figure out a few relationships from the early 1900′s. Luckily, my digitizing projects have been proceeding nicely. I am grateful that I have pictures of all but one great-grandparent on my Briley side. I only have about 50 more pics in dad’s album. It will be fun to hand him back his album and a DVD of his pictures. … Read entire article »
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Motivation Monday-January Genealogy Goals
Here are my goals for this January. I will be checking in at the end of January to review and plan for February. Smaller Goals: Join 2 genealogical societies. Attend 1 Rootsweb webinar. Post 3 blog posts per week. Larger Goals: spend 2 hours per week digitizing and organizing my records and notes order the first deed book for my “Opus” from LDS spend 2 hours per week on inputting Briley deeds from Pitt County (I have most of them photocopied) into Deed Mapper Look for more “modern” records for my grandparents on Ancestry (not a priority this month) I will be using some of these goals as posts in the next few weeks…so keep posted!! … Read entire article »
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2012 Genealogy Goals
The new year begins, and like many others, I find myself looking over the last year and deciding what I would like to accomplish this year. This year I am will finally be able to devote some time to my genealogy. I have been burnt out on volunteering (school and otherwise) in the past year and decided to take some time for myself. Research and the puzzle of genealogy is very relaxing to me. Excess volunteering took away the time I had for pursuing my research. I am taking a hard look at what I volunteer for and am cutting back to that which makes me happy, not haggard. I have 3 major on-going goals for this year: Digitizing and Organizing Records - Oh, how I long to be almost paper free. … Read entire article »
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