As 2017 winds down, I like to reflect on my genealogy accomplishments.
I started 2017 like I do every year with high hopes of making genealogy more
of a priority.
During 2017, I finally uncovered my biological grandfather.
My three year journey was very exciting and finally being able to put a name to
a blank spot on my pedigree chart was very exciting. I was hoping to create a
family history book on my biological grandfather that I could share with my
siblings, however that was an epic fail. I guess this will get push to my 2018
goals.
I spent most of my genealogy research time this past year
not on my genealogy goals, but on researching prospective members lineages who
wanted to join my local DAR chapter. DAR is the acronym for Daughters of the American
Revolution, in case you didn’t know. Being
my local DAR chapter Registrar means applications of prospective members fall into
my lap. I have learned many new research skills with research in areas that I
was not familiar with and thus I feel as if I have improved my research skills.
Even though the position has been very fulfilling, I am looking forward to the
end my term in 2018 so that I can go back to my own research.
I have decided that in 2018, I will more goal orient. What I
mean by this, I will have clear goals before each session of genealogy research
that I am able to fit into my schedule. I will also make sure to schedule
genealogy into calendar, since we need to make time for the things that we find
important. I also wanted to do more blogging in 2017 and for me to accomplish
this goal in 2018, I will need to schedule that into my calendar too!
Looking back on 2017, I struggled getting into the mood to
do genealogy for too many reasons to cover here. However, looking forward to
2018 I will change this. I was looking at my kindle books and I found many
books that could help me stay motivated. Such as 52 weeks of Genealogy,
Projects for every week of the year by Nancy Hendricks. I was
thinking of perhaps obtaining The Genealogy Do Over Workbook
by Thomas MacEntee or 31 Days to Better Genealogy
by Amy Johnson Crow. Both books have Facebook groups and webpages by the same
name that could help keep my genealogy moving forward. I like books better than
Facebook, because there are too many Shinning Bright Objects to distract me on Facebook,
thus I know I need to stay clear of Facebook when I am supposed to be doing my
genealogy research.
Finally for the record, I have not received any compensation
nor will I receive any monetary compensation from the three books or authors
listed above. The links provided are
just links back to their webpages.
Happy New Year!
