Tuesday, January 11

Better Late Than Never, Right? (Research Diary, no. 8)

My Research Diary:
Part to-do list...
Part dear diary...
Part Nosy-Nellie...

Weekly events, plans (and a question or two) from my oh-so exciting genealogy (and sometimes non-genealogy) life...

""I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson

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What happened this week:

Blog housekeeping...
  • I gained 2 more followers...as always, thanks for following and reading! I appreciate your comments and I think I've followed everyone in turn, but if I haven't please let me know
  • Thanks to Lori, I've started to contain my blogrolls to a scroll list...
  • I've added 10 new-to-me blogs to my reading lists - see below (though I'm sure there will be more, as always!)
  • I posted my lists for the "Ancestor Approved" award I received last week from Lisa... Thanks again!
Genealogy:
  • Giving back: I signed up as a RAOGK volunteer (photographing select Oshawa cemeteries).  Does anyone else volunteer here?  Do you get many requests?
  • I've also continued indexing with FamilySearch - I posted about my initial foray into the indexing world at "Chronicles of a NFSI*" and I've since moved on (though still in the 1861 Ontario census project) to Orford tp., Kent co....  
  • Regular features were whittled down to Tombstone Tuesday (Oshawa Union) and Wordless Wednesday (Valcartier picture postcard)...
  • I've been working on organization: getting family group sheets and sources together...and it's a good thing to know that my yen to file by document type is not alone...
  • ...I also stumbled across Tribal Pages.  Has anyone created a site here?  What do you think about it?
  • Lastly, I started to (re) explore (since he's updated the site quite a bit) Murray Pletsch's Canadian Gravemarker Gallery. He started out with the north/northwest portions of Ontario, and has now expanded to all of Canada!
Books:
  • I finished 2 books this week, including...
    • Drew Smith's Social Networking For Genealogists
    • Megan Smolenyak's Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History, A Companion To the NBC Series.
  • ...and I'm almost done G. J. Meyer's A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 - 1918.
  • I've created a new account at Shelfari, added a few recent books, and plopped the widget on the sidebar. I've tried out a few different book tracking sites, but I always seem to return to Shelfari...
New-to-me blogs:
What's coming up:
  • Hopefully I can get back into the post-holiday swing of things and return to a regular posting (and research!) schedule...
  • Regular features, including Tombstone Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, and Tabloid Thursday...
  • ..."52 Weeks to Better Genealogy" result and challenge posts...
  • ...and I've finalized my plans for a series of Military Monday posts, to start January 17th...

Thanks for reading!
Jenn

My personal research and blog diary for the week ending 9 January 2011 (just a little belated).

2 comments:

A rootdigger said...

I like 'whats coming up' feature of your blog. good for you.

I also like your other blog. I need all the help I can get.I am currently Looking for stand alone page info.
so I'll be back to browse and see.

Jenn said...

Thanks! :)

I use the "What's Coming Up" as a to-do list, which I can check off (or not, as in the case of this week!) what I need to do/post/etc.