GENEALOGY
I finally got the lazy out... and pulled in all the totes from around the house and garage that hold our 'special' things... Photos, group sheets, family histories, personal histories... etc.
We are up to 8 totes and still searching. We are trying to sort this into 5 families... Mike's Mom's and Dad's, my Mom's and Dad's and then Ours... Along with photos and other important papers. It's been so cold to get out in the garage to look, that Spring will have to be the time I add to my office clutter.
Mike and I started the genealogy class at church and we have been able to connect us as ONE family on the new family search https://new.familysearch.org . If you copy and paste this into your browser... it will bring it up... use the sign on your use for your ward... or create one if you do not have one created yet. Try to tie our families together... Let's see what we can accomplish in the year 2011. I only shows the dead's info not the living... so it's safe.
When you are the keeper of the family jewels, I have found this to be a pretty overwhelming job. The amount of stuff, what to do with the stuff, how to best preserve the stuff... etc.
Can I ask a dumb question? Why were the 'old' photo album sheets black? Why did they 'glue' them in and put the cute little corners on too?? Then they wrote in like a white ink under the photo. To get the photos out I have to cut them out and then try to remove the majority of the paper. Notice I said majority... cuz you can't get it all off due to the lovely glue.
I sounds like am complaining... I am not. I feel fortunate to have so many jewel blessings. The enormity of the job is just a tad overwhelming, that's all. I called a cousin (thanks Jani for coming and bringing your box of jewels) thinking that we would have the same jewels, and found we did not. So we are sharing and trying to figure things out between us, since our mother's are sisters.
So far this is what we have... No work done on Bobbie Dean Lindsay, and Mike and I not showing our temple sealing date... not sure where to put it... guess I will ask the teacher on Sunday... We have our 4 generations done. Thanks to other family members. So I thought I can organize what we have, make copies, share and update our current family info.
Sound good to you? It does to me. I now get to spend hours scanning photos and documents into a flash drive and burning media disc's to hold the info...
I am do it...
Slowly but surely. (Shirley no pun intended)
So, it's Genealogy...
I am working on it...
our genealogy
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