What a month this has been!
Hot on the heels of the successful Ohio Genealogical Society 2015 Conference,
May ushered in a bunch of family highlights. One daughter graduated with her
MBA and got engaged a week later; another daughter and her friends spent a
fun-filled weekend with us; I helped my mother look for a new house in Florida;
and my husband and I took a two-week trip to Ireland and Spain. Now that I’m
home and have a chance to catch my breath, I can’t help but feel I’ve been incredibly
blessed.
It’s one of those times in
life when you can almost feel the pages turning.
Even as I’m busy catching up
with mail, laundry, work, and so forth, I want to make sure to preserve the
memories of these times. I’ve taken hundreds of pictures and collected a dozen
new Irish civil registration records on my mother-in-law’s family. I’ve
uploaded all the images to my computer and backed up with Apple’s Time Machine
and Mozy, so they’re safe for the moment.
But I want to get those
images off my computer and enjoy them, and I want to be able to find and access
them ten years from now. Which is why I was thrilled to find the copy I’d
ordered of Denise Levenick’s new book, How to Archive Family Photos, waiting in my stack of mail. (You might know Denise through her blog, The Family Curator.) Even though I’m just
partway through the book, I’m already getting excited about trying her ideas. This looks
like exactly the kind of system I need.
So I’m going to keep reading,
and I’ll give you a full review in a few days. And I plan to tell you later about
how I obtained those Irish records. I’m also headed to the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) at Samford University in less than two
weeks, which I’m very excited about. Stay tuned—life shows no signs of slowing
down!
--Shelley
