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Meeting Notes for 2 Jan 2016 ~ Strategies for the New Year
Begin the new year with a review of strategies for improving, evaluating and organizing your research.
Back by popular demand, geneablogger
Dear Myrtle
(a/k/a Ol' Myrt) has updated her
FINALLY Get Organized! Weekly Checklists.
Designed with beginning and intermediate genealogists in mind, each
FINALLY Get Organized! Weekly Checklist
post suggests tasks designed to assist organization of existing paper and digital files, and prepare participants for upcoming research challenges. New checklists will be presented each
Sunday
in 2016, starting
January 3rd
.
For details see:
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2015/12/announcing-finally-get-organized-2016.html
Weekly checklists will be available at:
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/p/finally-get-organized.html
Example of 2009 Monthly Checklist at
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2009/03/finally-get-organized-mar-2009.html
Thomas MacEntee, the creator of GeneaBloggers, has created The Genealogy Do-Over -- a project-based learning initiative to improve genealogy research skills. The project offers two paths -- Full Do-Over or Review “Go-Over”. Last year's participants found the project's methods helped them find oversights, errors, assumptions, missing data and more in their research.
See:
http://www.geneabloggers.com/genealogy-do-over-month-1-january-2016/
For a list of 2016 topics see:
http://www.geneabloggers.com/the-genealogy-do-over-2016-topics/
Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogydoover/
Begin your in-depth study of the Genealogical Research Process using the Genealogy Research Map
http://www.thinkgenealogy.com/wp-content/uploads/Genealogy%20Research%20Map%20v2.pdf
Start at the beginning ~ Create an Organized Plan of Attack!
Statement
Question
Hypothesis
Research Plan
Research Log
Related Links from the Dec 2015 Meeting
One Map Explains It All!
Genealogy Research Map
http://www.thinkgenealogy.com/wp-content/uploads/Genealogy%20Research%20Map%20v2.pdf
Research Plans & Logs
FamilySearch Wiki ~ Research Logs
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Research_Logs
Thomas Macentee's Research Log ~ Free to Use, Excel Document
https://drive.google.com/templates?view=public&authorId=14862414289557021741&urp=https://www.google.com/&pli=1&ddrp=1#
Pat Burn's Blog Post re Research Logs
http://patburns.com/genealogy-research-logs-organize-and-track-your-work/
GPS, Evidence & Proof
Evidence Analysis ~ A Process Map (PDF document will open in Adobe Reader)
http://historicpathways.com/download/hpprocessmap.pdf
Genealogy Gems ~ Using the Genealogical Proof Standard
http://lisalouisecooke.com/2014/03/fh23_genealogical_proof_standard/
Check the Research Worksheet (Blank Form, Microsoft Word, LibreOffice)
Barbara Vines Little, CG, "It's Not That Hard to Write Proof Arguments
http://www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/skbld099.html
BCG
Case Studies and Proof Arguments
http://www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/worksamples.html
Recommended Reading:
Freilich, Kay Haviland, CG.
"Was She Really Alice Fling? Righting a Wrong Identity."
from National Genealogical Society Quarterly 88 (September 2000): 85-88
Organization
Organizing You Research
http://organizedgenealogist.blogspot.com/
Dear Myrtle's blog post about The Organized Genealogist
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2015/10/the-organized-genealogist.html
Genealogy Do-Over ~ What We Wish We Had Known When We First Started!
http://www.geneabloggers.com/tag/genealogy-do-over/
Quick Site of the Month
Thomas Macentee's Genealogy Tool Box
http://destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com/p/research-toolbox.html