FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS!!!!

Looking through the Genealogy Do-Over for week 9, I stumbled on the link below. I love this idea so am going to use the idea under "the goals I set last year": {THESE ARE HER IDEAS AND I HAVE REVAMPED THEM FOR MY EXCEL SHEETS}
               
 Organize Your Family History by Janine Adams (http://organizeyourfamilyhistory.com/)

I’ve decided that my new schedule will be as follows:

• 1st quarter: Funderburg (my father’s father’s line)
• 2nd quarter: Hudson  (my mother’s father’s line)
• 3rd quarter: Smith  (my father’s mother’s line)
• 4th quarter: Willis (my mother’s mother’s line) 

 I’ll use a progress tracker to see what census, vital and military records I’ve already located by making progress-tracking spreadsheets using Excel. Hoping this will keep me more focused and help me feel less overwhelmed.

• Fill in the gaps on my progress tracker
• Make sure my surname files for that line are organized
• Ensure that everything in my paper files for that line are also organized
• Fill in collateral relatives on my family tree in Legacy
• Go up at least one generation in verified information

Making these Excel Sheets for my tracking goal:  {this is a work in progress}

     
Sheet 1: BMD Vitals

1. Birth records
2. Marriage records
3. Death records
4. Burial records
5. Grave photos
6. Obituary
7. City Directory
8. Will
9. Divorce

Sheet 2: Censuses
On the first table, a column for each U.S. Census. I fill in the square (using the traffic signal colors) in green if that record was found, green for it's a "go". An amber square indicates the ancestor wasn’t alive for that census. A red (stop, look) square indicates I still need to find this record. I also have a table of state censuses, so I can note those.

Sheet 3: Military
Here I track what military records I’ve found for each ancestor, by war or conflict and track Draft Cards..

~Trish~