Tuesday, August 22, 2006

All moved in and all is good.

I am completely settled in, have started schoolwork.

I finished TOCs for Lee and Loudoun (I'm uploading Loudoun soon) in VA.

I did a lot of image editing for the KYVitalRecordsProject Sunday night, or else I'd be more ahead. I'm still looking at my goal of getting rid of all of my backlogs by the end of the week. Classes start the 28th and if I get my pages to where they just need updating rather than originial forming, Classes shouldn't keep me from staying on top of all of this.

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Moving time

Last night Sharon, the state coordinator for the VA Archives and I worked on the search pages. We got the second search line working and discovered that the first line never really worked anyways so I removed it from my TOCs.

I finished my TOCs for all my counties in VA alphabetically up through Lancaster County although I skipped Frederick because I have more to upload for it and I'm coming back to it.

And now my computer is actually getting unplugged for the move so I can't get more done today.

Friday, August 18, 2006

Friday before Move

Everything is gone in my room now, except my computer. I'm still working though. I added some Obituaries in King George County, VA, did a bunch of little things, and finished a few Tables of Contents for the VA Archives page.

Unfortunately I found out none of the search bars work on my Archives pages. I have to get that fixed a s a p but there is that little problem that I'm moving and really need to get moving on the moving...

I'm feeling really accomplished though. I'm getting all the websites to an easily managed level and off the mountain of work to do stage.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Moving

It's extremely hectic to go through the moving process, all the packing and all of the sorting and getting my whole life into a honda civic.

However, even with moving day at about 50 hours away, I'm getting more and more done with the websites. I got more done with the IA Archives today because I had been confused about how to handle cemeteries officially and also went and double checked Polk County, because I used to have a County Coordinator for the one county (now I have none) and I wanted to double check that everything was in good shape that nothing got overlooked between me and my former CC thinking that the either was doing something.

I posted a new announcement to Daviess County: http://rootsweb.com/~kydavies
about the Cemetery Preservation Board being founded. I'd like to help with it myself but I don't have the resources.

I adopted more counties in Virginia on the VAGenweb. I'm going to go edit my initial post that lists my projects so all the links are there. I adopted some counties I'm really looking forward to working on-- and I have 2 co-CCs! I'm really excited. I've never cohosted a county before but I think it's going to be a blast. I spent quite a while last night talking to my cohost for Northumberland and Lancaster. I haven't talked to my cohost for Henrico yet, although I want to.

I'm going to finish my backlog before working on my new counties. That will give me the drive to really finish everything on my list by next week. I'm excited about the move to Cleveland :hint: Sunday I will be insanely busy, what with the 7 hour drive and moving in and all.

Monday, August 14, 2006

Last night I did finish my first cemetery from my trip. The transcription is currently at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~amw42/frankembrey

I also dug deep into the Frederick County VA submissions I had backlogged, and got through all the Estate bonds in the set. There's still tons more for me to go through. I think I can finish it soon.

I also went through and got *most* of my IA Archives TOCs up to date with the newest submissions. I'll finish that tonight, as well as work more on Frederick County submissions.

I am trying to just get rid of my backlogs so that I am caught up-- I think I can get caught up probably by tomorrow evening if I really try-- then I have so many things i *want* to do with my sites that I haven't had time to. I'm making surname pages for King George and Frederick, so that I can have a listing of who is researching who. It's proven useful in Butler and Daviess Counties *(KY) and so many people have already written me about the Frederick listings that I think it will be very useful as well.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

I had a very long and eventful road trip. I will update at greater length about it later.

I am now home, and dealing with my backlogs. I think I can honestly catch up with everything this week-- and pack for moving into college next sunday the 20th. Hint-- for those of you needing my mailing address, it's changing on the 20th.

I worked on my backlog of Frederick County, Virginia docs for the Archives and VAGenweb pages, and got several more online. Tomorrow during the day when I am rested more and have more wits about me I'm going to do more of them.

I have almost processed one of the cemeteries from my trip that I promised to someone I would have posted asap... the other things from my trip will wait until my normal backlog has cleared.

I am home now, however, and working on getting everything functioning and back to normal.