I haven't posted in a long time.  My job as a genealogy librarian keeps me busy researching everyone else's family history and leaves little time for mine.  Then at home I have projects that needed to be completed.  I started with the laundry room.  It needed a lot of organization.  It also doubles as my food pantry.  I am now able to find things in the laundry room/pantry and will be able to adjust my shopping list accordingly and won't be buying things I already have in the pantry.  Organization rocks!

And organization is very important when doing your family history research. Document everything.  You may think you will remember where you found that tidbit of family history, but unless you write it down you will most definitely not remember it.  So using the pantry as an analogy, keep a running list of places where you have searched for your family history.  There simply is no point in reinventing the wheel.  And along with that list a date of when you looked at that resource.  In time resources can and do change, so you might want to check back in a year or so, especially if it is a database that is continuously being updated.

For me, I have been narrowing down my searching to just one side of the family.  You guessed it: the Stauffer Family Line.  Currently, I am creating a list of books to research when I go to the Indiana State Library in March of this year (2017).  Remember dates are important.  Not just the historical dates of significance such as Birth, Marriage and Death dates, but WHEN you actually looked at that resource.  You don't want to waste time looking at the same resource you did just a few days ago.  Then again, after some time has gone by, it doesn't hurt to check it again.  It is so important to keep good records of your research so that you are not wasting time.

jkk