No Plan Survives First Contact The Gilchrest Family Archive Series 6 Military Papers is now Series 4 Military Service

There is a saying in the military No Plan Survives First Contact. The saying certainly applied when I started to work with the initial plan. In my post Setting Up The Family Archives, I had formulated a general plan for my archive including my military papers and artifacts.   As a refresher, this was the original plan. Series …

Setting Up The Family Archives

  A couple of weeks ago I began to scan and organize my dad’s military papers. I have scanned over 600 documents and am still not finished. As in most projects, one thing led to another. Questions like how am I going to organize them? Dad had them roughly in folders by the type of …

How OneNote Solved My Issue Of Getting Snapshots of Webpages and E-mail’s Quickly Into Zotero

Note: Most images can be clicked on to enlarge them. They will open in a new tab. I posted my blog post "Organizing Genealogy Documents With The Help of Zotero" in "The Organized Genealogist" private Facebook Group. One of the group's members Carolyn commented on the post. She was intrigued by Zotero but was hesitant …

Organizing Genealogy Documents With The Help Of Zotero

There are many ways to organize your genealogy and, in most cases, your approach is going to evolve and change over time. Mine certainly has. Today I use three primary pieces of software, a relationship-based genealogy software application, Scrivener and Zotero. Relationship-Based Software Most genealogy software applications are relationship-based. In other words, people are added …