January is a new starting point for a lot of things. It coincides with very cold weather where I am and usually a little more free time than at other times of year, so I naturally turn to my genealogy hobby in my cozy office. This year I resolved to be more rigorous about family…
The hunt for the perfect research log got a lot shorter after I listened to the recent podcast from Geni.com in which Thomas MacEntee discusses his approach and even offers a ready-made template that covers a lot of what I am looking for in a research log. MacEntee describes it as a “record of a…
Recently an editor friend and I were discussing genealogy research and how we make notes along the way. She was involved in creating a research log notebook some years ago and we wondered about the best approach now that we can have iPads and other portable devices along with us in libraries. I have been…
