I finally took time yesterday to do something I have been wanting to do for awhile now. It has been several years since I started genealogy and blogging. Many cousins have been found. But, how many? Who? I have not kept any kind of system to log these cousin contacts. I was past due, do I even remember all of them? Well, that was the goal here. I started a spreadsheet of "Cousins Found." I titled columns with things like, phone number, address, email address, surname, how/where we made contact, and if I have met them. I am all about meeting my living cousins and their family members, it does my heart good, plus you never know how long they will be with us. Of course, they may also have information to help us in our genealogy research. I started listing the cousins names I remembered making contact with, those were cousins I generally keep in contact with anyway, so that was easy. Then, sporadically, I would remember someone contacting me on one e-mail address w
Now, that's a dedicated genealogist!!
ReplyDeleteLOL - we will have to remember this for next year's GeneaBlogger's dinner. Having people draw their family tree would at least keep them quiet - we were a noisy bunch weren't we?
ReplyDeleteHi iPentimento, I think he is dedicated! ;)
ReplyDeleteHi geneabloggers, yes, while he was doing this, didn't hear a peep out of him! But then if we all did this, it would be to darn quiet! I prefer the noise we made! ;)
It wasn't so much that I was dedicated, but I wanted to win the prize! There was a prize wasn't there? I think it was Sheri Fenley's birthday hat, wasn't it?
ReplyDeleteHi Steve, I know you wanted to win the prize, you were so dilligently working at it! I am not sure what happened with her hat....maybe next year we will find out the answer! :)
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