Genealogy Do-Over, part 2: How To Set Some Research Goals

You can follow the first part of this Genealogy Do-Over here. A term I have struggled with throughout my life: analysis paralysis. I have spent too many months struggling with perfection. How do I organize the records and data I have collected? How do I store that content. I...
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Genealogy Do-Over, part 1

Apparently it takes a global pandemic, a personal crisis, and a loving family for me to finally get started on the huge pile of genealogical material I have collected over the last almost fifty years. The term genealogy do-over was originally coined by Thomas MacEntee on the GeneaBloggers website...
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Serendipity on a Quick Trip

One of my goals is to carve out time each week to pursue my genealogy in one way or another. While I have been a life member of the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists for several years, I had yet to attend a meeting. Their Spring 2019 meeting on...
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Summer Trip to Nova Scotia in 2018

While I had taken a bit of a hiatus from genealogy, I was presented with an opportunity to check something off Dad’s bucket list. In the summer of 2018, the Locke Family Association was slated to have their first ever international reunion by traveling to Nova Scotia and visiting...
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How I Began My Genealogy

I started working on my genealogy around 1976 while in elementary school. It was the bicentennial and my grandmother, Mimi (Marie Elizabeth FORD), was telling me that we had a Revolutionary War patriot in our tree, Captain Samuel Lockwood of Greenwich. She eventually admitted she was descended from him...
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