Motivational Monday: Belgium

1. My 3rd great-grandmother, Catherine Scheer Kollin was born 14 July 1822 in Belgium.  She married Jacob Kollin and died 21 Jan 1901 in Bennington Center, Wyoming, New York.  I am visiting Belgium in a few weeks and was hoping to visit her home town, except that I have no idea how to do research on Belgium and I kind of forgot I wanted to research it when I booked my plane ticket 5 months ago, so it wasn't looking good.  With some help from an Ancestry.com member tree and the website Messancy, I found her parents and place of birth, Messancy. Belgium.  She also has ancestors who lived in Sprinkange, Luxembourg and Mondercange, Luxembourg.   This week I need to look into these areas and plan a day trip there from Belgium.


2. I am tremendously close to finishing my sourcing from my Whitehead binder.  I should be able to finish it by the end of Sunday.


3. I also need to work on organizing my blog categories.  At the very least I would like to finish updating the surname category.

Motivational Monday: June

It is hard to believe we are at the halfway point of the year already.  After hearing Elizabeth Shown Mills speak at NGS, I am focusing the majority of my time putting sources into my updated RootsMagic database.  Although most items are sources in my Legacy database, not everything is and there is almost no document transcription or comments on the validity of the document/information.  As such, I am trying to create a main database that will include all of this information and have decided that RootsMagic 5 is the best program for this.

Research:

• Main focus: Sophia Possehl research strategy
• Secondary focus: Continue basic search for the husband’s family (Ancestry, FamilySearch, etc.)
• Search for tombstones for my husband’s family in the Utica area

Organization:

• Put all Whitehead family sources into RootsMagic.  All sources must be fully documented, transcribed and with comments as needed.
• Dedicate one shelf on our bookcase to my genealogy notebooks

Education:

• Watch all RootsMagic webinars of interest
• Read the 4 genealogy books I have out from the library
• Continue reading and taking notes on the NGS syllabus
• Attend 3 CLRC library/archives workshops

Misc.

• Post at least twice per week on this blog
• Complete at least 3 Find-A-Grave cemetery requests