- What about the whole task of organizing your genealogy?!! Just reviewing your system for filing documents might remind you that there are sources you always meant to track down. We are fortunate to live and research in an age when it is easier than ever before, to go online and find that marriage record, or the burial site for your ancestor.
- Understood, but rarely ever mentioned as a tool for growing a healthier family tree is: Do More Research! Keep swimming.
- We know and understand that BMD info is essential, but do we realize that there are other records we should keep an eye out for? For example, Funeral Home Records! Birth Announcements (newspaper or actual relic). What about searching int D.A.R. for Bible records? Finding a family member in a Yearbook (school) might give you a confirmation that this person lived in a particular location and/or at a particular time/year.
- Find, label, and scan your photographs.
- Hold a Family Reunion and ask everyone to fill out a family group sheet.
- Schedule a "cousins" luncheon and share family stories.
- Finally, think about setting some "family history" goals. To be effective goals should be
- Meaningful: Visit a cemetery or the old home place.
- Manageable: "How do you eat an elephant"?
- Measurable: If you only spend 2 hours a week on researching the Hall family line, that is better than doing nothing or trying to take that family back four generations in one afternoon.
- Search blogs online. Create a blog for your family. Yes, you can make it private to a few people if you like.
