March was a far more productive month in terms of my genealogy goals than January and February, thank goodness!
In addition to posting for the Honor Roll Project and completing two hours of indexing on Family Search, I have almost completed my new public tree on Ancestry up to my second great-grandparents. For this project, I am making sure that I have documentation attached or referenced for all the facts attached to these ancestors and making sure that I have downloaded all of the available documentation from Ancestry in an organized fashion, meaning that all of this documentation is downloaded right away into an appropriate folder and recorded in my research logs in Evernote. I'm trying not to do any analysis of new documents for lines I am not currently researching, but as you probably know, that can be difficult when new information is right in front of you.
It is nice to see that as I revisit some of these ancestors and find new documentation (via hints, not new research), I find that I analyze and see so much more potential in these documents than I did before. It's great to read and take classes and watch webinars, but the true reward for me is in the new way of thinking and finding that I'm doing it automatically.
Last week, I finally made it to the Family History Center in Plainview to download some documents but they were having trouble with their firewall and I could not use ArkivDigital while I was there. I have no problem paying to access ArkivDigital, but right now I only want to look up a couple of dates and that isn't worth $42 to me. So, I'll have to wait until I'm ready to really dig into my Swedish lines and spend the time on the site to make it worth the price.
And after procrastinating for over a month since my package of archival tissue arrived, I finally got serious about rescanning my grandfather's three photo albums from about 1912-1917. I have completed the first album and started on the second.
In addition to working on my stated goals for the year, I also did a bit of research on one of Donald's Irish lines. I'm familiar with the issues that come with researching common names, but doing that in an urban center like New York City during a peak immigration period is something new for me. What a challenge that is going to be when I get serious about it!
This month I'll be getting ready to head to Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau (formerly Buckingham), Quebec on May 4th. I can't wait to finally get to the cemetery there! I'm not sure about this month, but hopefully, I'll have more to post about in May after this trip.
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