Category Archives: Organizing Documents
This Is Why I Never Get Anything Accomplished
This week as part of my organizing and verifying genealogy document project I started on the McSwegan folder on my computer. I got several things input which was awesome. Then I hit a mystery. I found a child noted as nephew in the 1900 Census for Charles McSwegan. Very few people in this line were …
Organize Those School Papers
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 …
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 …