Plan Of Attack - a genealogy must

Where to begin ?????


Well after going though all my files and data I have decided to focus on one side of the family at a time. One big word


FOCUS



I have a slight problem with drifting off track and diverting to other tasks, so this little picture here will keep me on task.

Do you thinks she looks like me. LOL




I have chosen my Nolan family line to commence with. One reason behind this is that my Mums sisters and brothers are all big supporters of me continuing on with the research and writing a book.
They love hearing all the new information and I love our catch-ups at Aunty Joan's house.
Many theories and old hearsay rumours have been assessed at these meetings and a good old laugh occurs always.


The data displayed here in this image below details the Nolan line and you can clearly see where I have some gaps to fill.

 

Perhaps the most logical place to commence is with Thomas Nolan (my ggrandfather) and his wife Mary. I think this might be one of my biggest stumbling blocks and its going to take some digging for sure.

 

Now its off to start the delving ......................

 

 

 

Read and Refresh - the 2 R's when it comes to family history

With a nice strong coffee in hand and my favourite recliner chair wound back I made a start on my re-reading of my records and files. Two hours later, I was still going and decided I needed to put a halt to it as it was getting close to tea time and hungry mouths were calling me.



What I found is that I am quite organised as to how I store my hard copy files but its my online data that needs some sort of  system. What a must this is in the world we live in, I need to be able to access this data as fast as possible, not search and go through a mountain of discs to find what I want.


Do I use an external hard drive or copy everything over to my Dropbox account. ????
I will need to check out other storage options at a later date, but now I need to make a decision as to which way to go. I am leaning towards Dropbox because I can access that on both my phone and tablet.

Going through my hard copy files brought out many emotions. One being WOW, I have actually amassed quite a lot of information.
I also came across a few pages of Nans infamous Snake Stories, what a read, she was indeed a brilliant story teller and writer. Hopefully you can have a read here with page 1 shown.


So my brain is now familiar again with where I am up to in my research and what's missing.


The next process is to set out a research plan to empower myself with the updated resources so I can follow along with my missing links.

The Bug Is Back - the family history one that is.

Well I finally discovered on Sunday that the good old family history bug is back with me. Yes its BACK.



How and why now is a mystery but it just feels like the time is right to continue on with my research and write it all down.


Who knows I might drop off the perch tomorrow and all my past research and knowledge might be lost. :(


I started researching when I was 16 years old and I am now 49. Whoa is feels like a lifetime ago and I have kept almost all of my handwritten letters and notes from all those years ago.
Now everything is done on computers but I still have some of treasures.


Who started me on my quest at aged 16,  well it was my dear Nan and Grandad. Listening to their stories and recollections is where I developed my  passion for wanting to know where I came from. I was like a sponge and spent most of my childhood in their company just soaking any story telling up and asking a million and one questions to them both. Nan had already begun a bit of research herself and had kept a good collection of photo's and family hearsay. So I had a good start and just had to continue on where she left off. How lucky was I !!!!!

On one occasion Grandad was so busy telling me a story that I had to stop him at one point and say "Grandad your shoes are smoking" Lol he had put his feet to close to the heater and he got carried away with the story and forgot about his feet, he felt the cold so much. So he had smoky shoes for a few hours. But we had a good old belly laugh and continued on.

What memories :)

Looking forward to getting my reading on this afternoon and refreshing my brain as to where I am up to with it all. So I will brew the coffee and find a calm place.