Organizing my research

I haven't done much genealogy in years. The easy thing to do would be to blaim it on being a parent now, but that's not really the case. Mostly, I learned enough to know what I needed to go back and fix, but organizing is not fun! I had a family tree file that had lots of things I found on line in it. Which was fun, but then I progressed to wanting to have a file with just my research. And, in the mean time I collected documents without adding information to the file, because it would just be things I need to edit later. And, so the information is scattered.

I've been listening to some great podcasts on genealogy. Shamele Jordan's Genealogy on Demand is really motivating on the getting organized front. A lot of genealogy podcasts have been discussing how to share information, including using blogs as an informal way of sharing your research. I think it may be a good way to put a little "fun" into clean up. I can put up notes about what I'm filing, the people, and families, etc, and that might be an easy way to let other people in the family know what I'm doing.

Here are some links to my current favorite podcast's homepages:

• Genealogy on Demand
• The Genealogy Guys