Ticked Off

I'm not a fan of bits of paper but, sometimes, I just have to make a paper list. This morning I made  a list of tasks to keep me on track lest I be tempted to indulge in Tangential Genealogy.

I am pleased to report that, several hours later, I am more than halfway through the list, I am on track.

It gives me a sense of satisfaction when another item is Ticked Off the list. Now I can give GeniAus a big tick too.

Promises to keep

Having been out of the country for seven weeks I have a lot of things on my genealogy "To do" list.  A quiet day at home is giving me a chance to catch up with some tasks. If I neglect to fulfill a promise made to any of my readers please let me know and I will rectify the situation.

Adding a new member to the family tree is a delight. Oscar, my great-nephew was born in early January and, on the day before I returned home, my 9th grandchild, Nicholas, arrived in this world. The details of the boys' births have now been added to my site.

I am embarrassed to say that I neglected to pay my annual subscription to The Society of Australia Genealogists; I feel much better now that I have done so as I believe in supporting our State society.

My most unsuccessful meme to date has been the recent Reader Geneameme. Thanks to Shauna Hicks and Linda Ottery I have been able to add two more responses to the list.

I had an invitation for my husband and I to attend a Lord Mayor's Reception in Adelaide for the forthcoming 13^th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry. I have responded to that invitation and look forward to donning my glad rags and joining fellow genealogists in the historic Adelaide Town Hall.


At the Rootstech Conference I conducted two interviews that were videotaped. The first with Darrin Lythgoe from TNG I uploaded to Youtube several weeks ago; this has already had over 300 views. I have been trying unsuccessfully to upload the second with Walt and Diane from Flip-Pal. I'm attempting an upload once more and will let you know through this blog when it is ready for viewing.  


The 28th Annual Conference of the NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies will be held in Sydney on 14, 15 and 16 September 2012. I emailed off my bio, mugshot and summary of the workshop I will be presenting on Blogs at that event.  I hope to catch up with many other geneabloggers at the conference that is to be hosted by The Botany Bay Family History Society in Sydney's Sutherland Shire.


A visit to Geneawebinars is on the cards. I have been neglecting my CGD while travelling so need to sign up for a bit of self-improvement. 


A number of people have contacted me with additions and corrections for the Geniaus Family Site. I will work through these and upload an update to my site this week.


During my absence I wrote and submitted another article for Inside History Magazine. My next task is to find some images to enhance that article.


Both the Android Genealogy and GeniMates blogs need attention - I hope to publish a few more posts this week before I head for Congress in Adelaide. Hopefully some of the genies I meet in Adelaide will be happy to provide profiles for  GeniMates. I also need to review all the comments that have been made on my blogs and respond to any questions that have been posed.


How I will ever have time to sort, examine and file all the material I gathered from the resources at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City I do not know but I had better get tracking or it will be March 2013 and time to return for Rootstech 2013.

Distraction Buster

Thanks to a tweet from Teacher-Librarian @marita_t for the link to this "How to Focus"mindmap from http://www.mindmapart.com/how-to-focus-mind-map-jane-genovese/.

I don't print many things out but will be doing so with this funky diagram that will remind me how to avoid distractions.

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