{"id":6439,"date":"2014-03-07T16:19:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:57:39","slug":"organization-preservation-tips-for-genealogy-spring-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/organization-preservation-tips-for-genealogy-spring-cleaning.html","title":{"rendered":"Organization & Preservation Tips for Genealogy Spring Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/em><\/strong>: In this article, Scott Phillips\u2014weary of this long, cold winter\u2014jumpstarts thoughts of spring by planning his genealogy spring cleaning tasks. Scott is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past\u00ae genealogy services.
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Wow, what a winter we are having this year! But there is good news: March 1st was the beginning of Meteorological Spring! If you don\u2019t believe me, just take a look at this 1937 article from a New Jersey newspaper, which says:<\/p>\n

The astronomical Spring is fixed by the sun, the meteorological Spring by the calendar. So the weatherman\u2019s Winter ended a week ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Note: all of the newspaper articles used to illustrate this Blog post come from GenealogyBank\u2019s online Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/a>
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, New Jersey), 8 March 1937, page 12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So we have passed one spring beginning, and have one to go\u2014with this year\u2019s astronomical start of spring occurring on March 20th with the vernal equinox.<\/p>\n

I prefer to follow the seasons in the Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/em><\/a>. Although the currently-produced Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/em> has been in continuous publication since its first issue in 1818, I came across an advertisement for one of its predecessors all the way back in a 1792 Massachusetts newspaper.<\/p>\n

\"ad<\/a>
American Apollo (Boston, Massachusetts), 16 November 1792, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All of this talk and my dreaming of springtime got me thinking about doing some spring cleaning, especially of my genealogy and family history materials.<\/p>\n

So I dug in and began to devise my genealogy spring cleaning plan. Although a serious project, I want to keep the work of getting things organized enjoyable\u2014keeping in mind a delightful and fun article I once found in a 1951 Texas newspaper.<\/p>\n

\"Spring<\/a>
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas), 19 March 1951, section II, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got a good chuckle at a few of this newspaper article\u2019s suggestions, such as:<\/p>\n