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What are your genealogy plans for 2013? One of the best things which has worked for me in the past is to write down my goals for genealogy research as the new year is coming?

Here are some items you might want to put on your list to preserve your family history for the upcoming year;

• Write one short biography (or more) of one your favorite ancestors.
• Organize your papers you’ve accumulated.
• Organize your computer files related to genealogy
• Try to fill in specific blanks within your genealogy
• You may want to fill out an application for a heredity society such as the Union Sons of the Civil War.
• Perhaps you want to scan and save your old photos.
• What about taking photos of some heirloom objects and writing a short paragraph of how it relates to the family and how you came to have it.
• If you have a blog, perhaps you want to set a goal to blog at least once e week. Geneabloggers.com offers daily blogging prompts which helps bloggers develop content. Some prompts require very little writing such as Wordless Wednesday.

Your goals may look something like this at the end of your planning;

• Reorganize my paper files by 1/31/2013
• Reorganize my computer files by 3/31/2013
• Write short biography of John Charles Sanders by 6/30/2013.
• Write short biography of John Douglas Laurie by 12/31/2013.
• Try to locate the townland in Ireland where Patrick Fraher was born

Write downs your goals for 2013 today.
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The Indiana Genealogical Society has a wonderful blog. They have a new post almost every day. They inform readers about various genealogy society meetings happening in Indiana. They also inform readers about sources of genealogical interest which have been added to various databases and more.

Some recent posts include;

• Indiana Historical Society Adds Free Access to Indiana Digitized Newspapers

 

• Valparaiso Public Library To Discuss Self-Publishing Your Family Genealogy :Jan 19, 2013

 

• Jay County Church History Published

 

• IGS Adds Civilian Conservation Corps Rosters for Madison County & St. Joseph County

 

If you have any Indiana ancestors be sure to check out the Indiana Genealogical Society Blog. You might become a regular reader to this blog.

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Many of my readers of this blog know about the 19th century photo album I acquired. I am very thankful for the woman who rescued my family’s photo album, found me and sent me the family heirloom.

Many of these photos have been posted on Wordless Wednesday or in other blog posts. Here are photos 51 – 60 in order from the album. If you can provide any insight into these photos I would love to hear about it. Perhaps you can estimate the year one of the photos was taken or the age of an individual(s) or even perhaps what event was taken place.

This is an unusual sized photo.

This is another unusual sized photo.

This is another unusual sized photo.

This is a tin type photo. It is from prior to 1900.

This is another tin type photo. It is from prior to 1900.

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What can you do with all your old tin type family photos. Make a family history photo album.

This is of Mrs. J. Smith from New Haven, CT

This is another tin type photo. It is from prior to 1900.

This is another tin type photo. It is from prior to 1900.

This is a cabinet card photo. It is from prior to 1900.

This is another cabinet card photo. It is from prior to 1900.

The photo is of Sanders from New Britain. If you have any more information about the people in this photo, please let me know.

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