Hear Tips to Organize Your Family Archive on Family Tree Magazine Podcast

I had a lot of fun talking with Lisa Louise Cooke recently about the Family Tree Magazine Organize Your Family Archive Expert Webinars where I had a chance to help Editor Allison Dolan with her inherited genealogy treasure trove. Our conversation is just part of the January 2012 Family Tree Podcast and also includes ideas for working with Evernote, using Social Media, and new collections available from Family Tree Magazine.

The January podcast kicks off the year with a focus on "Making Over Your Research in 2012" with all kinds of information on new products, organizational ideas, and research techniques --

• Diane Haddad reveals news from Ancestry.com and WDYTYA
• Lisa and Kerry Scott discuss using Evernote for genealogy
• I share some tips from the Organize Your Family Archive Webinar
• Allison Dolan describes the new Get Organized Collection

You can also find more organizing ideas in the February 2012 issue of Family Tree Magazine including my article, "Computer Cleanup."

New Webinar - Help for Your Mountain of Memorabilia

If you are drowning under a flotilla of ark-ives (thanks, Drew Smith!) or buried beneath a mountain of memorabilia, consider signing up for a the Organize Your Family Archive webinar I will be hosting Tuesday, 29 November 2011 for Family Tree University.

Early this Fall, Family Tree Magazine Editor Allison Stacy Dolan shared her inherited family archive with readers and asked for ideas to get control of the confusion. Allison inherited over two dozen boxes of family memorabilia and genealogy papers from her grandmother who recently downsized her home. Her legacy included everything from cabinet card photographs to soldier's letters home to scrapbooks and news clippings. I gave her a few ideas with my Short List, but she has a big project ahead.

The webinar will focus on working with Allison to sort, organize, and preserve the assorted items in her family archive. We'll talk about figuring out

• what she wants to do with the collection
• how to easily inventory the contents
• how to decide what to keep and what to throw away
• how to organize, preserve, and store what she has left

Registration for Organize Your Family Archive is now open with a $10 discount on registration through November 20. Hope to see you LIVE on November 29.