Researching, Organization, or Are You Prepared to be Overwhelmed?

Yesterday I worked on one ancestor Wiley Brown, who is the husband on Keziah Gambill, who I posted on Saturday’s Story. I went through one index roll and found about 15 deeds for him (and probably her for those following) covering 7 rolls of microfilm. Now I figure if I do a really good job [...]

Why Genealogy with an Internet connection can be so…

Productive: Had a problem understanding how a life estate worked. Sent an email to Advanced-Research-L@rootsweb.com and within 24 hours had my answer and a lot of good future research advice from people who know what they are doing. Unproductive: Spent 4 hours reading the ABC Bachelor blog. It was like playing slots in Vegas. You [...]

The key to staying ahead of laundry…

I think I have finally found the key to staying ahead of laundry. It’s not scheduling, or washing clothes 24/7, or even my humongous LG washing machine, though all those help. Nope, I am convinced what makes women get behind on laundry are…. Wait for it…. Laundry baskets. Yup. I got rid of my laundry [...]

Why Do I Never Have a Pen?…

Using Dear Myrtle’s organization checklists, she says to first set up our desks the way we want. I did some major moving of furniture and finally I have a fairly good working desk. Then I sharpened a whole bag of pencils and put them in the pretty container a friend at work bought me last [...]

Gensmarts…

Let me first say I like this program and have used it since pretty much the beginning. I rarely use the TO DO LIST function in Gensmarts, but prefer the CUSTOMIZE RECORDS FEATURE. But today’s blog is about using the TO DO LIST function, with filters to narrow down the suggestions. Today’s blog is on [...]

Company Ready…

Don’t you just hate the term “company ready”? As if having your house clean enough for family isn’t good enough for company. As if your family doesn’t deserve what you would serve to strangers who drop by. It also implies that we shouldn’t have friends over until our house is in some state of perfection [...]

A Tiling We Will Go…

Wow, I got so much done yesterday. I didn’t get to the wills, but I did get the index roll down and made a list of my super 16 (the surnames of my great great grandparents) and looked those up on the index. Found out what I pretty much knew. No wills for Gee, McAlpine, [...]

My So Called Leisurely Day…

I think I have forgotten how to goof off. When I stayed home, I could take hours to piddle, but now I am so used to going, going, going that when I have time to piddle, I can’t seem to do it. My plan for this week was simple. Wednesday, paint baseboards, genealogy…Thursday, clean downstairs, [...]

Beyond Cleaning Up After Yourself

My husband is under the delusion that if one picks up after himself the house will stay clean. He believes this because, when he was a kid there were 4 kids and his mother told them if they cleaned up after themselves the house would stay clean, but which she really meant, “I will be [...]

The Perfect Find

Saturday I finally decided to declutter my office, instead of the nap. For the most part I am one of those people that has a place for everything and everything must be in it’s place. But for some reason my office has never fallen into place, despite numerous attempts to clean and organize it. While [...]