Genealogy

Events associated with a place Recently I saw a picture of a frozen Barnegat Bay, that had me flashing back to a time with  people driving on the ice and falling thru. I had a range of years it could have been, but not a precice cold snap. So I googled it and found a newspaper article , I found it interesting and  worthy of sharing. (To be fair I have memories of ice skating, an ocean beach fire permit, and assorted other things too.) However the people in the article were not ones I knew, so in GRAMPS I started attaching them to the town my family owned in but never had a residence. Technically it is not even  a town in the article , it is across the bridge near which the one car sank. (BTW this blo wganted to self configure a link instead of using the embed html that newspapers.com offered.) In my mind the further spot  was straight across the bay from our boats and in the range of "stay in sight" to play and was where we took power  boats for gas, so still associated with

A limited time offer for newspapers.com  was publicized from https://genealogybargains.com/ and its related facebook page.  Do Over Let me backtrack a moment. I had found a cheat sheet for citations  that cited the page above. As I had recently "started over" digitally, trying to record sources this time, I found myself intrigued by https://genealogybargains.com/genealogy-do-over-start-here/ I hoped to gain some insight from a professional that actually gave some thought to the subject. It describes 12 steps (and suggests you take a week for each). It had a facebook group. The reason I go through this is to get to my new acronym, BSO. Please bear with my notes and introspection. The sections immediately below are  based on  series of facebook posts as I started going through the material. Like most things genealogy, they are a work in progress. Watch upcoming blogs. Golden rules: I've been working on citing my sources. I see I can do better with dates of my efforts. This