This post may contain affiliate links.  See disclosure policy here.  How many of you have sat down to do a quick look-up on an ancestor…..and dinner was suddenly cereal again? (Ahem.) Researching your ancestors is exciting, fascinating, overwhelming and time consuming.  Most of us don’t have 2-3 hours a day to research. We do need to sleep sometime. Reader Emma recently wrote: I’m trying to get back into doing my research– so right now I’m making a plan to carve out time AND be productive in getting back into the swing of things. I would like to spend 20 to 30 minutes a day doing research.  My challenge is where…

  This post contains affiliate links. See full disclosure policy here. Every year January rolls around and I get the organizing bug. I love researching new organizing systems. I might be an organization junkie. I am also an organization flunkie. I see all of those pretty organized homes. organized calendars/planners and even organized genealogy files. I jump into organizing an project but never last more that a couple of weeks.  I have just never been able to stick with one system for very long….especially a genealogy one! Anyone else? How about you? Are you thinking to yourself THIS will be the year you get your genealogy files organized? Let’s look…