Networking Again

Last Saturday, I finally attended another meeting of the Upper Cumberland Genealogical Association (UCGA), at our local library. I attended a couple meetings in the first year we lived here, then we got busy with building our house and moving again and I let other things get in the way.

So, I was pleasantly surprised to see new officers at the helm and just a different attitude - or so it seemed to me. The program was presented by the White County archivist, Geraldine Pollard, who explained to the members how, when and why the White County archives were set up. It's nice to know that Nashville is encouraging the individual counties to set up archives to preserve their records.

The good news is that attending and joining the local society has helped me cross an item off my resolutions list.

Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes

Does Half a Resolution Count?

Sometimes you can kill two birds with one stone. For example, on Sunday I sat down with hubby and we went through photos I had already scanned and linked to my genealogy program, searching for photos to put on an SD card for the digital photo frame I gave him for Christmas. He thought he was going to have to browse through over 12000 images. Hello? I am much more organized than that! He really enjoyed browsing through the pictures. I can't tell you how glad that makes me because we have two boxes and five bins of photos to go through. Those are just ours. There are also two bins of photos from his parents. I think this unseasonably cold January weather (our normal high is 46 and it is 26) is great for sifting through all those old photos. If I can get those bins out of our storage room that will free up so much space for me to organize that room better. Sounds like one of those win-win situations!

Family History Resolutions

Are you having a hard time figuring out what you want to accomplish in 2010? I have so many ongoing projects, many of which are hugely time-consuming, that I sometimes have trouble setting goals. The ideas are there, it is the follow-through. I won't even attempt to blame husband for distracting me.

1. Photos. We moved bins full of photographs with us from Michigan. I've managed to have both daughters paw through them and pull out what they want. If there was anything they had that I wanted a copy of I scanned it. Wow, the blessing of scanners, eh? So my goal is for husband and I to go through all the photos we have and pull out what we want to keep. And put them in albums. The rest will be discarded. I've decided that while the concept of double prints was a good thing at the time, allowing us to share with family those precious moments of our lives, it has just added to the problem of what to do with all those photos. This doesn't even include father-in-law's photos we brought with us. We can hardly discard them, and most of them are in some type of album.

2. To-Do files. I want to continue to work on those items I set aside to work on at a future date. I'd really like to be more organized and more consistent with this.

3. I'd like to get back into a genealogical society. Sadly, the local society here in mid-Tennessee is not all that I would like it to be. Maybe I should resolve to start attending meetings again.

4. I think I'd also like to get back into Genealogical speaker mode again. I haven't spoken to a group in years because of my work schedule when I worked at the library. Since my schedule involved some nights and weekends, it virtually put an end to my speaking career.

5. Convince hubby to make another trip to Lexington, Kentucky Cemetery so I may photograph more of my families graves. Start working up other cemeteries to photograph.

6. Keep up this blog. I'm not sure I'll keep up the weekend, but hope to have plenty of material for Monday-Friday.

Since resolution #1 is a biggie, I think I'll quit with six. What are your resolutions?