If you’re like me, you have a whole collection of school papers. They belong to a variety of people and are a complete mess! You may not feel this is very important to genealogy. It’s only a bunch of your old school stuff after all! Each document whether past or present adds to the family…
Category: Organizing Documents
I Cherish My Ancestors’ Sugar Plantation Contracts
One of my most treasured items is something I never thought to ever see.I met Susan Nunes online years ago. We learned that we shared the same de Braga ancestry and began comparing notes, photographs, and documents. Susan had something in her possession that I thought was long ago lost. It was a copy of…
Organizing Digital Photographs
One of the challenges I undertook for the Genea Blogger Games was to organize my digital photographs. I had to do a minimum of 20. My photographs are already fairly well organized. They are all labeled with names of who is in them and a date if known. My current family photographs are kept in…
Solutions to Backing Up My Data
One of the challenges I took on from the Genea Blogger Games was to backup my data. I really dreaded this item. I backed up my computer to CDs in February and it almost took me the whole month. What a tiresome task! Plus you end up with hundreds of CDs each having a bit…
Organizing Documents and Filing Them Away
The next challenge I faced in the Genea Blogger Games was to organize at least 20 hard files and file them in their appropriate place. I had a stack of documents that I’ve input but never got around to filing, so I worked on that. I do not use folders. I found out years ago…