Asha Elizabeth Burton

Asha Elizabeth Burton

Asha my fourth child and third daughter decided she did not like the snow that was on the ground 

and came 2 weeks late. The only one of my children to come that late. 

Asha was named after a news reporter that was on the TV at the time. 

Elizabeth comes from a number of people: Her maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Joan

 and her mother was Elizabeth Grace and the Betty in my name came from Elizabeth.

Week 1 of Genealogy Do-Over

I was having problems thinking these things through, but thanks to Thomas and others I finally figured it out so here are my goals. 

First I had to realize that like doing a major cleaning or organizing project, I will make a bigger mess before I am done. I have to get use to the fact that I will need to generate more paperwork in order to keep better track of what I am doing, what I have done and what I need to do. Sounds kind of like a research log, so I need to come up with a type of log that I can and will use. 

1) Setting previous Research aside - this is easy since everything is so disorganized to begin with. I will continue working on the New York Land records. This is a project that is gathering deeds found in Cayuga County during the first half of the 1800's for the Maynard/Minard/Miner Surname. This is mainly transcribing the records. I will wait to do the full analysis until later.

2) Preparing to Research - 

• Make a new file folder on my desktop for Research Notebooks: Dear Myrtle had a good idea on how to organize 8 weeks of research. (Wacky Wednesday Information Overload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMHpg0Y8inQ ). My excel notebooks will be for 6 weeks, since I am currently on a 6 weeks plus a few days Pituitary Cycle and every 6 weeks I have a few really bad days and am able to do very little. This will help me to be able to have a schedule and still have the flexibility. It will also allow for re adjusting my schedule on a routine basis. 
• When I need background noise to turn on music and not the TV
• Learn about how to use Dropbox so as I clean up my files and enter it in my database I can move them into Dropbox for storage and away of keeping a visual track of what I have done.
• Find a place for my copy of Evidence Explained and put it back there when I am done with it. So I do not keep losing it.
• Start a notebook to put the notes, hints, blogs and research helps I print out. 

3) Establishing Base Practices and Guidelines - 

• Open up my Excel Notebook for that week's research plans 
• Open Roots Magic
• Open Dropbox
• Do not be afraid to have several folders open and several websites open at once
• When I am done, file any papers I printed out that session.
• While researching have a spiral notebook to write down any new to-do items or new ideas that come up.
• During down week up-date my paper research note book - This will mean print out my to do lists I made during my active weeks and add it to my paper research notebook.

Those are my thoughts. I will be adjusting these as time goes by.

John Edward Baker

My second son and youngest child was born on a Saturday. The date 4 Jan 1992 in Huntsville Alabama. Like his older brother, Ryan, John has his grandfather's initials. That is his maternal grandfather, James Edward Baker Jr. Since my father was a Jr, that means John has his great-grandfather Baker's initials also. In John case he has a part of both of his maternal great-grandfathers names. My mother's father was named John C Bionaz. So John comes from Grandpa Bionaz and Edward comes from Grandpa Baker. 

Here is John's scrapebook page for his birth.

It is 1 Jan 2015. Happy New Year!  

This year I want to get more done. I have a Pituitary Gland that likes to spud-er and I live on a roller coaster of changing hormones. This past year I have been learning how to live with this new life and I have come a long way. I now at least realize that I will have good days and bad days and as long as I take them in stride the bad days are not so bad. What I want to do this year is figure out how to make the most out of my good days and how to still get things done on my in between days. In order to this I have to learn how to organize myself better and yet be flexible. So here is my plan for at least the first few months to see if I am headed in the right direction.

1) Continue indexing and arbitrating for Family Search 6 out of 7 days a week or at least a total of 700 names a week.
2) Watch and possibly participate in Mondays with Myrt and Wacky Wednesday each week. This is to help me stay in touch with others and is easy to schedule
3) Update to Roots Magic 7 and starting from scratch re-enter my genealogy one name at a time and make sure I do correct citations. This is part of the Genealogy do over that starting on Facebook
4) On Sunday put together at least one blog post and then sometime in the week post it. I may be having a good day one Sunday and then try to draft several so on the bad weeks I can still post something.
5) Put together a Research Notebook for my military records and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) records so when I have the money or by some miracle I am able to go to the National Archives in Washington DC, I will know what I want.
6) By the end of January have my direct line ancestors in my new data base with full and complete citations back at least 4 generations.
7) By the end of this week have started my revisited proof of Phoebe Coulton's parents, and have an outline done.
8) Work on finish watching Dear Myrtle's HOA on Thomas Jones "Mastering Genealogical Proof" This is kind of a hard one because each HOA is almost 2 hours and there are only a few days a month I can sit and really concentrate for that long.

So that is my plan to begin with. I just wish I could say on Mondays I will do this and Tuesday this and so forth but my week does not go that way.