OK, I know this is silly, but I ran all my blog posts through Wordle:
I know, I know. It doesn’t really have anything to do with genealogy. But it amuses me. And maybe I need to branch out beyond the Gillespie lines!
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Motivation. Inspiration. It’s Follow Friday!
A variety of articles to get you motivated and inspired for the new year.
- What is plagiarism? from Genealogy Certification: My Personal Journal
- Why Become Certified? Reasons Vary from Board for Certification of Genealogists
- Where Were They? Turn of the Century Mark from Ancestral Breezes
- The True Source from Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog
- Ancestor Landing Page ~ Debs Webster Family Immigration Story from Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog
- In Which I Assign You a New Year’s Resolution from Clue Wagon
- The curious case of the curator from The Legal Genealogist
- Ellis Island Still Closed After Suffering 59 Million $ in Damage Due to Hurricane Sandy from GenealogyBlog
- Samuel Grunden: Racism in Mercer Co., Ohio from Old Stones Deciphered
- My Three Words for 2013: C x 3 from Ancestral Breezes
- But I Don’t Know Who They Are from Desperately Seeking Surnames
- Achieving Your Family History Goals by Taking Inventory from The Armchair Genealogist
Knowing when to tip over or How I plan to write more this year. Tuesday’s Tip
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
— RAY BRADBURY, Zen in the Art of Writing
Hilary Dotson “entering the overflow” (http://www.flickr.com/photos/naiadsspring/172927427/, accessed : 2 Jan 2013), Creative Commons Attribution
I do a lot of research and find a lot of cool documents and stories. I’ve put them together in some sort of random order or even some deliberate order.
I’ve found mistakes in others work and “ah ha”‘ed when I’ve discovered the truth.
I’ve rejoiced when I’ve put pieces together on my own that have proved some conclusion that I dared hoped was right.
But you know what I don’t do? I don’t write it all up and publish it anywhere for anyone to learn, question or comment on it. Well at least not often enough. (Go ahead. Raise your hand if you too are guilty. I can’t believe I am the only one.)
Resolved for 2013: Do a bit more tipping. Do a bit more overflowing. Let the beautiful stuff out.
What I find, I write up.
It doesn’t have to be brilliant. Or even right.
But if I don’t write it down, and don’t let others review, poke and prod, then I’m going to miss a lot. And a whole lot of my ancestor’s stories aren’t going to be told.
And that is the point. Not to let the people who came before me be forgotten.
