Sooner or Later, we have to Pay Attention

to the technical aspects of genealogy in this age of computers. Without the marvels of digitized records and high capacity micro chips, we could not build our large collections of family, loaded with citations and images. All this simply leads up to stability: making sure our records are complete, accurate, safe and accessible. 

I'm spending the last two weeks of November and the first two weeks of December in a class, "Mastering Family Tree Maker". It includes fun things that are not difficult once they're explained, like color coding for the tree and index. It also includes hard things that I don't consider fun, like doing GEDCOM uploads to my database.

Benefits outweigh difficulties: I will be able to print beautiful charts, to print timelines and make a book of ancestors. I'll have everyone in one tree for looking up their facts and images.

I remind myself to have patience.