Travel Log: #2--Organizing & Preparing
(note this post is part of a series of posts of my recent research trip to Des Moines, Iowa with my Dad)
Two weeks. . . In order for this trip to be most effective and valuable, I need to do as much research and find as much background and foundational information as possible so I will be able to utilize the available sources. It doesn’t make too much sense to travel across the country when the same sources are available to me locally.
So, I leisurely check Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org for any recently released information that has been added to either site in the last few months. Re-researching research!
Suddenly and unexpectedly, I find a mountain of new information on FamilySearch.org. (See my post here.) Although I am very excited, I leave in a little over a week and now I am finding a ton of stuff! Panic! Rush! Excitement! Panic!
I work from morning until night organizing and adding the new information to my RootsMagic program and sorting it all out in my head. I analyze my new information and see how it fits into the puzzle. After the analysis, I now have new directions to go; so I follow those directions and find even more information! For one solid week I explore the new databases, update my personal database, make copies, and organize my research. Reminds me of “finals” week when I was cramming for tests and finishing research papers!
I am in panic mode!
In addition, I finish the newsletter and mail it out. . .
Two weeks. . . In order for this trip to be most effective and valuable, I need to do as much research and find as much background and foundational information as possible so I will be able to utilize the available sources. It doesn’t make too much sense to travel across the country when the same sources are available to me locally.
So, I leisurely check Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org for any recently released information that has been added to either site in the last few months. Re-researching research!
Suddenly and unexpectedly, I find a mountain of new information on FamilySearch.org. (See my post here.) Although I am very excited, I leave in a little over a week and now I am finding a ton of stuff! Panic! Rush! Excitement! Panic!
I work from morning until night organizing and adding the new information to my RootsMagic program and sorting it all out in my head. I analyze my new information and see how it fits into the puzzle. After the analysis, I now have new directions to go; so I follow those directions and find even more information! For one solid week I explore the new databases, update my personal database, make copies, and organize my research. Reminds me of “finals” week when I was cramming for tests and finishing research papers!
I am in panic mode!
In addition, I finish the newsletter and mail it out. . .
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