The Winter Games are over -- those in Vancouver (and I congratulate the Canadian hockey team on a game well-played and for bringing such joy to Canadians everywhere -- and I'm part Canadian, myself!) and those right here in the genealogical blogosphere -- the Geneabloggers Winter Games. Even though I'm neck-deep in Spanish Colonial Florida these days, I did manage to return to the 21st century enough to get one Gold Medal (in the category "Back up your data!") and three Bronze ("Go back and cite your sources!", "Organize your research!", and "Reach out and perform genealogical acts of kindness!"). Not too shabby, and I look forward to the next games!
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Showing posts with label Geneabloggers Winter Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geneabloggers Winter Games. Show all posts
Monday, March 1, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Geneabloggers Winter Games: Final Score, not so hot
So my final tally for the Geneabloggers Winter Games is:
20 documents organized, 10 source citations created, one act of genealogical kindness performed, and my data backed up!
Not so great, but this is a very busy time, and I have to watch that I don't get too run down because I have a habit of overdoing.
I think next time I'll be able to do more!
It was fun, and thanks to Thomas MacEntee for doing all he does for us!
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20 documents organized, 10 source citations created, one act of genealogical kindness performed, and my data backed up!
Not so great, but this is a very busy time, and I have to watch that I don't get too run down because I have a habit of overdoing.
I think next time I'll be able to do more!
It was fun, and thanks to Thomas MacEntee for doing all he does for us!
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Geneabloggers Winter Games: Jammed Up
I've had much to do in the last few days, but I did manage Tuesday to do a backup with my copy of HandyBackup. Not much else, but I hope to do more this weekend as a study break. Tomorrow I will be spending the day in the public library buried in the East Florida Papers and other references for my grant project.
So the tally now is 20 documents organized, 10 source citations created, one act of genealogical kindness performed, and my data backed up!
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So the tally now is 20 documents organized, 10 source citations created, one act of genealogical kindness performed, and my data backed up!
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Geneabloggers Winter Games: Workout!
I feel like I've done a real physical Olympic competition!
First of all, yesterday, an opportunity to perform a genealogical act of kindness dropped into my lap. An individual who had seen my post about Asking the Right Question sent me an e-mail in which he said he was looking for a photo of the historian I discussed, who turns out to have boarded in his great-grandma's house in 1920! What a small world! I said I did not have a photo, but I gave him the contact information for a special library collection which holds many of his manuscripts, and may just have such a photo.
Today I organized 20 hard documents into their proper binders, in archival document sleeves. These ranged from my father-in-law's original World War II draft registration and draft classification (he was 4-F), and a 1945 Florida state census sheet to notes, official letters, funeral documents, and tombstone transcriptions. I keep binders by individual or by married couple. I also keep binders by family surname for those dribs and drabs I accumulate on a variety of people, but which are not of such volume that they need their own binder yet. But someday I know I will have to have another bookcase.
I also created at least 10 source citations, and decided that I am not going to migrate from The Master Genealogist to Family Tree Maker 2010 after all. Yes, FTM 2010 is using Elizabeth Shown Mills's sourcing templates, but it is using them too rigidly, and does not take into account original documents privately held in my own collection -- such as the aforementioned draft registration and classification cards. The template for "National Government documents," I think it was called, demanded to have me select from among National Archives or Library of Congress or other government agencies as repositories, with no way to put in that I am the repository for these documents! The Master Genealogist is still much more flexible and forgiving on that score, and was very happy to have me say that these documents are part of the "Rhodes Private Papers." No problem.
So the tally so far: 20 hard-copy documents organized, 10 source citations created, and one act of genealogical kindness performed.
Tomorrow is a class day, and I will be on campus all day, but I hope tomorrow night at the very least to backup my data to my portable hard drive with HandyBackup.
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First of all, yesterday, an opportunity to perform a genealogical act of kindness dropped into my lap. An individual who had seen my post about Asking the Right Question sent me an e-mail in which he said he was looking for a photo of the historian I discussed, who turns out to have boarded in his great-grandma's house in 1920! What a small world! I said I did not have a photo, but I gave him the contact information for a special library collection which holds many of his manuscripts, and may just have such a photo.
Today I organized 20 hard documents into their proper binders, in archival document sleeves. These ranged from my father-in-law's original World War II draft registration and draft classification (he was 4-F), and a 1945 Florida state census sheet to notes, official letters, funeral documents, and tombstone transcriptions. I keep binders by individual or by married couple. I also keep binders by family surname for those dribs and drabs I accumulate on a variety of people, but which are not of such volume that they need their own binder yet. But someday I know I will have to have another bookcase.
I also created at least 10 source citations, and decided that I am not going to migrate from The Master Genealogist to Family Tree Maker 2010 after all. Yes, FTM 2010 is using Elizabeth Shown Mills's sourcing templates, but it is using them too rigidly, and does not take into account original documents privately held in my own collection -- such as the aforementioned draft registration and classification cards. The template for "National Government documents," I think it was called, demanded to have me select from among National Archives or Library of Congress or other government agencies as repositories, with no way to put in that I am the repository for these documents! The Master Genealogist is still much more flexible and forgiving on that score, and was very happy to have me say that these documents are part of the "Rhodes Private Papers." No problem.
So the tally so far: 20 hard-copy documents organized, 10 source citations created, and one act of genealogical kindness performed.
Tomorrow is a class day, and I will be on campus all day, but I hope tomorrow night at the very least to backup my data to my portable hard drive with HandyBackup.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Geneabloggers Winter Games!
Okay, in the midst of everything else I'm up to my eyeballs in, I've decided to compete in Thomas MacEntee's Geneabloggers Winter Games , scheduled to coincide with the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (provided they can find some snow!) over the course of the next two weeks.
I have designed my flag, which you see there on the right. The flag shows the American flag on top, with the flag of the United Kingdom and a smaller flag of Switzerland, which means that I am an American with mainly British ancestry, and a smattering of Swiss ancestry on my mother's side.
There are six categories of competition, and I will be competing to one extent or another in all six. I am not by any stretch of insanity going to try to do all the tasks under each category -- I have books to read and 18th and 19th century Spanish documents to transcribe and journal articles to copy and read and my classes and two days a week with the five-year-old grandson! But I'm going to try to do some of the tasks in each category, as a way of advancing some of my own personal genealogy work which has gone neglected with all the other stuff I get involved in!
The categories are:
Go Back and Cite Your Sources!
I have recently transitioned from The Master Genealogist
to Family Tree Maker 2010, and need to be sure that all
my sources transferred intact, as well, and surely there
are other documents I need to make citations for.
Back Up Your Data!
I won a copy of HandyBackup in a Geneabloggers Data
Backup Day contest, and I will be using that to back up
all my data, not just genealogy, onto the portable hard
drive my husband bought me.
Organize Your Research
I have a drawerful of items that need to be cataloged,
sourced, and placed into binders. I also have some more
photos to put into my heritage scrapbook that I have
been working on. Time to get some of that done, and
these tasks will make a good study break.
Expand Your Knowledge
I'm always in favor of that!
Write, write, write!
That's what I do for a living, so I will be doing some of
it for the Games.
Reach Out & Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness
I'll do what I can in this department with the time
available.
So let the games begin!
I have designed my flag, which you see there on the right. The flag shows the American flag on top, with the flag of the United Kingdom and a smaller flag of Switzerland, which means that I am an American with mainly British ancestry, and a smattering of Swiss ancestry on my mother's side.
There are six categories of competition, and I will be competing to one extent or another in all six. I am not by any stretch of insanity going to try to do all the tasks under each category -- I have books to read and 18th and 19th century Spanish documents to transcribe and journal articles to copy and read and my classes and two days a week with the five-year-old grandson! But I'm going to try to do some of the tasks in each category, as a way of advancing some of my own personal genealogy work which has gone neglected with all the other stuff I get involved in!
The categories are:
Go Back and Cite Your Sources!
I have recently transitioned from The Master Genealogist
to Family Tree Maker 2010, and need to be sure that all
my sources transferred intact, as well, and surely there
are other documents I need to make citations for.
Back Up Your Data!
I won a copy of HandyBackup in a Geneabloggers Data
Backup Day contest, and I will be using that to back up
all my data, not just genealogy, onto the portable hard
drive my husband bought me.
Organize Your Research
I have a drawerful of items that need to be cataloged,
sourced, and placed into binders. I also have some more
photos to put into my heritage scrapbook that I have
been working on. Time to get some of that done, and
these tasks will make a good study break.
Expand Your Knowledge
I'm always in favor of that!
Write, write, write!
That's what I do for a living, so I will be doing some of
it for the Games.
Reach Out & Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness
I'll do what I can in this department with the time
available.
So let the games begin!
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