In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.
April 22 – Celebrate Earth Day by finding ways to cut back
on paper in your research.
If like me, you started genealogy before personal computers
were a thing, you might find it hard to not print out everything. However, since
I have a computer background, I took the leap to saving digitally many moons
ago. However, there are some things that I still like to have paper for.
To-do-list are one. I like writing down what my goals are, the steps to achieve
the goals and then crossing off the items.
Error reports are handy to print out and then cross off the
name as errors are fixed.
I also use a scrap piece of paper to leave myself a note of
where I left off on my research. I could use the task area of my genealogy
program, but I find paper so much easier. I am currently researching all the
descendants of one of my 3rd great grandparents. I like to research
the descendants similar to an outline descendant report, where I find all the
children of a couple, then move to the oldest and find all their children, and
move down until I get to the present-day descendants. I try to find all the
vital information about each person. I repeat this up and down process until I have
found all the children of the present-day descendants before moving to a sibling
and repeating the process. Thus, my scrap piece of paper lets me know what
person I am on.
Remember to have fun and Just do Genealogy!
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