Here we are, at the end of another summer. My summer has been busy, busy, busy. As all summers are I guess. I’ve traveled to see family quite a bit, had family visit me. All in all, it was a very fun summer. I spent some time in Florida with my brother and his family and went to the annual family reunion in Upstate New York. I’m home for a long stretch now and ready to get back to work on my projects. Here is what I’m working on currently.
Family History Book
For the last 6 months or so, I’ve been working on writing up the family history on my Dad’s side of the family. My Great Aunt Barbara and her family are always interested in what I’m finding and I never really put it all together on that line before. So I did! It was really fun for me, so I am now trying to do it for each line. It’s a bit of a long process, and I’m not sure what I’m doing with it after I’m done, but I figured I can work that out later. Everyone who has read the work in progress has loved it and also given me some really good suggestions and inspiration. So I’m excited to get back to this project.
Organization
When isn’t a genealogist working on their organization? I’m still sorting through computer files and trying to make sure I don’t have 7 copies of the same image. Sometimes it feels like I do. My computer files just keep exploding into a file dump. I’m hoping just chopping away little by little is going to finally work for me. So far so good. It’s still a mess but a large percentage of my photo scans are now organized by person or family group.
Identifying Pictures
I will have some posts up soon about how I’ve been able to verify some of my previously un-identified pictures. This project has been one of the most fun ones and pretty rewarding. I really didn’t think I would ever identify some of these pictures and now I’m starting to think it will just take a little more determination. By the way, only one person in the picture above remains unidentified! Just one!
Website Organization and Overhaul
I’m still working behind the scenes to learn how to seamlessly integrate all the various sections of the website. It’s a little difficult for me to focus on coding and design these days, but I’m really inspired after talking with cousins and friends about the possibilities. One of the things I want to do is have a Diary of Llewellyn section. Where the entries are easy to navigate and there is biography pages for people mentioned and pictures integrated to help tell the story. I also still have to work on the database section of the website. My list is certainly getting longer.
I hope everyone’s had a great summer and I hope to update here at least once a month on my progress. If I’m making any cool genealogy discoveries those will be posted as well. It’s just a see how it goes situation around here right now.