Taneya Y. Koonce

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Taneya Y. Koonce

I help family history enthusiasts save, organize, & preserve genealogy info, photos, and documents.

03/18/2026

Bring Your Family Stories to Life Tonight 📖✂️🎨

What if your personal and family stories lived somewhere beautiful — not just in a folder or a database, but bursting off the page?
That's exactly what junk journaling does, and tonight I'm going to show you how. 👇
I'm joining the amazing Dear Myrtle at 8pm Eastern for a hands-on workshop on using junk journaling to creatively document and share your stories — your ancestors, your memories, your life.

No experience needed. No expensive supplies. Just bring:
📓 A notebook (repurposed is perfect!)
🎟️ A few pieces of ephemera — ticket stubs, photos, postcards, brochures, packaging you love
📎 Glue and/or tape

Don't have supplies yet? Come anyway. Curiosity is the only requirement. 😊

I've been junk journaling since August 2025 and it has completely changed how I preserve and share my family's story. I cannot wait to share this with you tonight.

🔗 Register via Dear Myrtle's post — link in the comments!

02/08/2026

Not all genealogy happens in long, focused research sessions.

Some of it happens in snippets—
between meetings, late at night, whenever curiosity strikes.

If that sounds familiar, know that you are not alone! I just published a reflection on patient genealogy and why working in layers actually works.

Read it here:
👉 https://taneyakoonce.substack.com/p/practicing-patient-genealogy-working

Do you always work with a focused research plan?

01/25/2026

sharing about my "life index" journals and how they support family history & memory keeping work!

01/20/2026

In genealogy, we talk about honoring ancestors.
But sometimes memory work asks us to witness beyond our family trees.

A recent experience stopped me in my tracks, and I needed to write it down. I invite you to check it out, especially, if you've had similar moments. Link in comments.

01/13/2026

Setting goals for 2026!

01/06/2026

tips for using physical + digital planners!

01/02/2026

getting organized, part 3 - managing your to do items; the approach I use is from Organize365

01/01/2026

it's Public Domain Day!

12/31/2025

Quick organization check! Let's have some fun 🙂

12/30/2025

Getting organized in 2026 - part 2: digital calendars - some tips! Which strategy resonates for you?

12/29/2025

tips for organizing email and reducing overwhelm; the system I use I learned from Tiago Forte (https://youtu.be/uXdEVeoGRRc?si=mmX0_ypc0L6AJkTA)

12/28/2025

Do you have practices each week to review what you've done and what's coming up?

I've done my weekly planning/organizing session and have videos coming in the next couple of weeks to share details about each component, and tips to help you! I'll cover tips for both "Life" organization practices and "Genealogy/Family History" organization practices.

For the video series, like and follow to keep up-to-date and share this post with anyone you think would be interested as well!

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Tampa, FL

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http://taneyakoonce.substack.com/

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