{"id":6035,"date":"2019-11-27T12:47:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T18:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T18:48:28","slug":"52-ancestors-48-my-file-cabinet-is-a-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/52-ancestors-48-my-file-cabinet-is-a-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Ancestors #48: My File Cabinet Is a Thief!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Week 48 Prompt:<\/strong> Thief \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s 52 \nAncestors<\/a> theme is \u201cThief.\u201d I am not aware of any thieves in my family and \nhad no idea what to write about for this prompt. Then I got to thinking about a \nrecord that has gone missing. I blame my filing cabinet\u2014it stole my record! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many years ago I had visited a cemetery where many of my Catholic family \nmembers are buried. I was fortunate enough to get a copies of the applicable \nplot cards on file that show who was buried and when; they also have a drawing \nof the burial plot. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I do<\/em> have a filing system (I use Mary Hill\u2019s \nsystem<\/a>), but I\u2019m not always good about filing things in their proper place \n(okay, so maybe I\u2019m the thief?). I have a huge section of a file drawer that has \n\u201cto be filed\u201d items. Some of those items are there because I haven\u2019t created a \nfile folder for that family, or they\u2019re there because I\u2019m simply \nlazy busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago, a person related to a woman who married into my family \ncontacted me for more information. This woman happens to be buried in one of \nthose plots I mentioned earlier. But for the life of me, I cannot find the copy \nof the plot card (or any of the others)! It\u2019s not filed in the family\u2019s folder, \nand I can\u2019t find it in the \u201cto be filed\u201d batch. Worse yet, I apparently never \nscanned the record and therefore cannot find a digital version of it either! \n(Although I did enter the information into my database with a proper citation \nstating \u201ccopy in author\u2019s file,\u201d ha-ha, very funny!) Every once in awhile I \nsearch for it, even though it\u2019s been a few years since that person contacted \nme\u2014yes, I still remember, and I\u2019m still looking for the darn thing! I really \nbelieve that my filing cabinet is the culprit\u2014that thief stole my record! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This little lesson reminds me that I need to be better about filing things \naway. Part of the reason I don\u2019t is because I almost immediately digitize paper \ncopies and am therefore not worried about the paper copies being in the right \nplace. But when I obtained this copy, I didn\u2019t have a process in place to \ndigitize paper copies upon receiving them. Sooooo, what I\u2019m learning right now \n(okay, really, I\u2019ve know this for years!) is that I need to get my paper files \nback in order (create a bunch of new folders and file all the paper records that \nare currently in the \u201cto be filed\u201d stash). And, as I\u2019m doing so, I need to \nverify that a digital copy has been created. That all being said, I think this \nwill be one of my genealogy new year\u2019s resolution for 2020. With any luck, the \nthief (aka, the file cabinet) will return my record!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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