Organizing ~ Cousins Found
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...
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I saw one b/c I watched it on Thomas's blog. But other than that, i didn't even know it was going on. I've been in the genealogy dark..i suppose.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Dr. Bill!
ReplyDeleteWell, A.S.Williams, at least there is access here if you wish to view the other programs that have aired!