Interesting This Week

I come across all kinds of stuff on the internet and wanted a way to share what I find so I am starting a weekly blog post called Interesting This Week. Each Sunday I will post the things I have come across this week that I think are worth sharing. They may or may not be genealogy related. The first installment of Interesting This Week starts now!

Category : Genealogy

Wiki Tree is having a Source-A-Thon on October 1st through October 3rd (72-hour sourcing marathon)

Amy Johnson Crow's blog post How to Find Your Ancestor by Researching Other People

Organize Your Family History -- How I store my genealogy information

Category : Currently Reading

Everyone Brave is Forgiven -- I just started this book this week after finding it in the Genealogy Gems Book Club

Category : Printables

Daily Docket I love using these when I feel overwhelmed on the weekend and don't really know where to begin my day.

Autumn/Fall printable blog tour -- Lots of goodies here to download and decorate your home.

Blog Planner Printable from Scattered Squirrel -- I use a lot of her printables in my planner...I couldn't survive without them.

Category : Evernote

Project Planning with Evernote

Organize Your Family History -- How I'm using Evernote for genealogy

How to Create Shortcuts for Frequently Accessed Notes, Notebooks, and Searches -- Not new to me this week but I have had some questions about how to do this.

Category : Miscellaneous

Wunderlist -- I have been looking for a to do list manager for some time. I have tried different ones and different ways for managing my to do's. Wunderlist is on my desktop, my phone and my ipad so my lists are always accessible and I can keep track of reoccurring tasks as well.

Screen shot of my to do lists. There is still a lot more to add...I'm getting there slowly.

What interesting things have you found??

See you next week for more fun found around the web!

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How I Use Evernote for My Genealogy.

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The Great Genealogy Shape Up of 2018!

For most of 2017, I spent my genealogy time cleaning up my database in Legacy Family Tree. I'm still working on cleaning up messes from when I first started my family tree. For 2018, I plan to continue cleaning up my database. I would also like to finish adding all Find A Grave information to my database as well. Find A Grave is a great place to find leads to research. Legacy makes it very easy to find everyone in your database who do not have Find A Grave memorials. Click the drop-down arrow on the Find A Grave icon and it gives you the following options: I selected create a list of people without a Find A Grave Memorial and I got a nice LONG list of people. From this list, I have been able to find more ancestors to research and add to my database. My other goal for 2018 is to find the people in my database who do not have a source {yes, I said without a source. Gasp!} Leg...

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