VA Archives TOC

I got through Dinwiddie and Fairfax today, I'm working on Albemarle. It's easier because although it has more files, it has an old TOC that's only 2 years out of date-- so I don't have to add tons.

I have so much to work on right now... and my DAR application is languishing because I can't afford a professional notary public and the ones I know I haven't seen yet.

Followup

Well, I successfully processed ALL the documents and contributions that I had from that time period that I had been missing, and I got through a lot of the IA Archives set, I only didn't get to the ones that required photo resizing.

I expect to finish that tomorrow, and all my other things, and get into my major todo list:

Finish VA TOCs
Finish Frederick Co., VA website contributions
Get Clarke Co., VA online
Sort and deal with AR Tombstone Photos

and there's more, of course...

in addition to the photos from Irvin's estate and the pictures I have to scan for my grandmother.

June 14-24

While I was out of town I somehow messed up my email for the previous dates-- and now I have to work on getting all those submissions online because I hadn't gotten them onto my desktop computer for some reason. If you submitted items to me in that time frame, I am getting to them, and I apologize for not noticing sooner.

July 10 2006

I have returned from 3 days away and started to catch up on what I missed the last 3 days.

I have also volunteered for the Obituary Project for Iowa (technically already mine ) and New York and Vermont, which will be new. I'm still getting the details on that and seeing if I'm actually doing it.

I have planned my trip more and budgeted in my money. I think I'm leaving the 24th or so of July and returning the 8th or so of August. We will see how it goes from here.

Caroline County VA TOC

Well, most of my day was devoted to the TOC of Caroline County-- now seen at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/caroline.htm and finally done! now there's just... many more to go.

But that took longer than expected so that's all today.

Thunderstorms

Well, most of my plan got shot by the weather. No fireworks, and no internet for my 4 hours of free time I had to work on most of this stuff. And being prepared like I am, I didn't have the stuff that I needed to work on downloaded off the servers. So I wasted my four hours staring at the static on the tv waiting for cable to resurrect itself.

Fourth of July

I'm working more on planning my trip-- including that pesky "earn enough money to go" part of it, so I don't have tons of time to spend on doing all this that I want to get done.

Tonight after I finish painting the walls (and getting paid for it) I'm going to test out the new online form submission process that usgenweb va archives is testing out on a trial basis. I don't know how many of the counties are using it, but I'm going to use some of it to format my backlog.

That, and work on my TOCs for VA archives. Have a lot of them partially done, but need to get more than one actually website ready and uploaded. We'll see how far I get-- some of these have a LOT of listings. Frederick County will be a nightmare for creating the TOC-- but at the same time, I am amazed and happy that people will contribute so much to make a database that is truly useful. I think by the time my main submitter is done submitting and I have finished uploading, the Frederick county site and the archives will be something to behold.

...to painting.

2 July 2006

Today I cleaned out my email, made sure I'd replied to everything, leaving me with 214 items to deal with in my inbox-- mostly archive project contributions. I figured I'd clean out part of my todo list.

I did my first set of images for the KY Vital Records Project, http://kyvitals.com/ . It was interesting. I have been using Photoshop Elements1 and 3 long enough I had forgotten how to use Photoshop CS2 and had to teach myself each function as I used it.

Then I decided to work on the Iowa Archives. I have had a lot of submissions lately thanks to a very good submitter. It's so amazing when someone shares such a large collection.

Now that my introduction is out of the way, I can talk about where I am now.

I just got the Butler County site ( http://rootsweb.com/~kybutler ) uploaded to the site after recently adopting it from Jimmy Orange. I have a lot of things to do now, but I feel like polishing the Butler County site soon. All I've done is get it really up and running / functioning, but it could use some sought out input rather than just waiting and seeing what shows up. I'll see how that goes, but for now I think I have some higher priorities.

A cousin of mine (my grandfather's first cousin, in his eighties) passed away in April, and we just cleaned out the estate a couple of weeks ago. I have maybe 1-2 hundred photos that I have to scan and organize now, and see who I can mail copies of what to so that I can get all of them identified. They are from the Bath County area, or possibly Ashland, KY depending on the shot.

Also, I still have all my photos from last summer to finish sorting before this year's travel. I plan on going down through VA, NC, coming west through TN and KY, getting to St Louis, and then coming back through KY, then up through WV, MD to home (in DC). I don't want to wind up duplicating photos (I photodocumented every stone in several cemeteries and several hundred marriage certificates). I need to get everything organized so I don't waste time on my trip, although if I can't make enough money, it's getting curtailed quite a bit. I don't know how much, but it is going to get cut some. I think I will make it for about a week on what I have now, so I just have to earn more money on top of that to keep going longer. I have to be back at college in Ohio in late August so I don't have tons of time left.

I also have a huge backlog from one of my wonderful contributors from Frederick County, VA, and some assorted things to fix on various sites. I'll see how far I get.

Introduction

I think having a blog where I can talk about my genealogy work each day will be nicer than my old blog where all I do is have emotional rants that don't make sense. I'm currently working on enough genealogical projects that I actually need to have an outlet to write down everything I'm doing or else I lose track. This way I can keep track, and people out there that are interested can read and keep up to date. When I tell someone "I have a bit of a backlog" they can come see how much is ahead of them.

Now to introduce myself. My name is Alice Warner and I am interested in genealogy and archiving. I am interested in genealogy and pulling things together out of original documents. I sit there and look at the census and try to wonder... how do these people fit in? I am one of those rarities that actually looks at everyone and wants the big picture. I don't stop at tracing backwards-- when it gets a little difficult to go backwards I go forwards. I love creating descendancies and tracing all the descendants of someone downwards. My current pet project in that matter is the descendancy of William Grancer Embry-- from Butler County, Kentucky. For those of you visiting from my other counties and not aware of him, he had 9 children, and every one of them had several children-- until a large proportion of Butler County traces back to him at least once if not more in their genealogy.

My website projects are some of my favorites. I love using my computer familiarity (I grew up, literally, with computers. There has been one in my house every day since my birth).

My list of websites genealogically that I'm working on right now:

KYGenweb:
Butler County http://rootsweb.com/~kybutler
Daviess County http://rootsweb.com/~kydavies

VAGenweb:
Arlington County http://rootsweb.com/~vaarling
Clarke County http://rootsweb.com/~vaclarke
Frederick County http://rootsweb.com/~vafreder
King George County http://rootsweb.com/~vakingge

USGenweb Tombstone Project
Arkansas State http://rootsweb.com/~cemetery/arkansas/arkansas.html

USGenweb Archives Project
State Coordinator
Iowa http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ia/iafiles.htm

County Coordinator
In Virginia: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/vafiles.htm

Albemarle Co., VA
Arlington Co., VA
Augusta Co., VA
Buckingham Co., VA
Caroline Co., VA
Dinwiddie Co., VA
Fairfax Co., VA
Fauquier Co., VA
Frederick Co., VA
King George Co., VA
Lancaster Co., VA
Lee Co., VA
Loudoun Co., VA
Madison Co., VA
Northampton Co., VA
Prince George Co., VA
Rappahannock Co., VA
Richmond Co., VA
Rockbridge Co., VA
Stafford Co., VA
Westmoreland Co., VA

In Kentucky: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/kyfiles.html

Daviess Co., KY
Edmonson Co., KY
Grayson Co., KY


Long list of things to do now, isn't there?