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Brain Dead

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My husband and I have been reworking our genealogy records. We have found some areas that we either left out, or messed up, so we are going through things very carefully again, trying to verify things, match up images, etc.

After you work on it awhile, using different kinds of records, your brain turns to mush and your eyes glaze. That’s the state we’re in now.

I just went out and gathered some tomatoes – taking our dog Molly for a walk – before it starts to storm again. We will soon have a snack from our South Beach Diet box and then do some relaxing before the afternoon is gone.

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Genealogy

Rodney Dangerfield via keepinspiring.me

My husband is a genealogy buff. He worked for a long time researching and gathering information and then put everything on Family Treemaker. The company changed hands or something, causing us a large period of time with no support, but they came out with a new version not long ago.

My husband decided that he needed to organize things better, standardizing how names were listed in pictures, for example. He’s been working on that all last week and is still working on it now.

A disappointment is that I don’t know much of anything about my mother’s family. I asked her to sit down with me and tell me about her family. I told her I would make notes. She was always ‘too busy,’ and I wasn’t insistent enough. When she died, I found a whole cedar chest full of albums of pictures, NONE of which was labeled. I had NO idea who anyone was.

When the software has been updated (thanks to my husband’s good work) , I will be able to start with someone in our history and see all the pics and documents we have associated with them!

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