I wrote this post, which is one of the most-read posts on this blog (more than 31,000 views!), way back in 2013. It got a great response, so I thought I’d run it again for newer readers. For me, being able to see at glance which documents I’ve found (or need to find) for my […]| Organize Your Family History
Heads up: This is not genealogy related! I wanted to let you know that my co-host, Shannon Wilkinson, and I have decided to restart the weekly podcast, Getting to Good Enough, that we hosted for five years from 2018 to 2023. At that time, we decided to shut it down because it had stopped being […] The post My podcast is coming back! appeared first on Organize Your Family History.| Organize Your Family History
It’s the end of July and the end of another 30 x 30 challenge. I hope it was a productive month for everyone! It sounded like things were going really well for the folks who checked in mid-month. I didn’t participate in the challenge this month…genealogy has been moved to the back burner for now. […]| Organize Your Family History
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The middle of the month has passed. How is your 30 x 30 challenge going? If you’re participating, please drop a comment and let us know how it’s going! Have you been able to put in 30 minutes a day on your project? If not, that’s okay. I’m curious, though: did you put in more […]| Organize Your Family History
Who’s up for a July 2025 30 x 30 challenge? I haven’t done one since January so it feels overdue. If you’re interested in committing to doing 30 minutes of genealogy research or genealogy organizing (or anything else, really) every day for 30 days, let everyone know in the comments. Sometimes the accountability of the […]| Organize Your Family History
Thanks to my family history research (and this blog, really), I had an extraordinary day this past Friday, meeting my mother's cousins and aunt. My mother was born in Missouri but her family moved to Spokane, Washington, in 1936 (looking for a better climate for my grandfather, who was recovering from tuberculosis), leaving behind my grandfather's parents and siblings, a close-knit family.| Organize Your Family History
This article, which I published almost exactly 11 years ago, on July 1, 2014, is easily my most-read blog post. I looked at the stats today and saw that it has had almost 61,000 views in the past 11 years. That’s a lot of views for my little blog. I thought I’d re-run it today […]| Organize Your Family History
Reader Darlene Crater was kind enough to alert me to a new-to-me digital resource, the California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC). I don’t have California roots, but I do have a few collateral relatives who lived there, so I searched on their names. I was able to download an obituary for one of them, Wayne Horace […] The post Free California digital newspaper archive appeared first on Organize Your Family History.| Organize Your Family History
For the fifth consecutive year, the National Archives is offering its free multi-week Genealogy Series. I’m a day late to be telling you about the first session, but you can watch the video! In 2021, the National Archives transformed its annual one-day virtual Genealogy Fair into a multi-week Genealogy Series. The first session, Revealing Ties […] The post Don’t miss the 2025 National Archives’ Genealogy Series appeared first on Organize Your Family History.| Organize Your Family History
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I received my 3d great grandfather’s Civil War pension files from the National Archives in record time. I’d been prepared to wait 45 to 120 days and it arrived the week after I submitted the request online. I dug right in and started processing the information. I […]| Organize Your Family History
Two weeks ago, I started a 30 x 30 challenge in which I committed to working at least 30 minutes each day on my family history research for 30 days. My challenge goes from November 2 to December 1. I’m happy to say that I’ve kept with my commitment, with the exception of Election Day, […]| Organize Your Family History
