Happy New Year

 

Well, another year is almost over. I like to reflect on my genealogy research from this past year and I must say, I didn’t do as well as I liked. However, it could have been worst. I started the year with no workable office. I purchased a new home in September of 2020 it took awhile before I was ready to do a refresh on the space.

The office space wasn’t set up for my needs. The previous home owner’s had a large kitchen counter top in an L-shape that appeared to be a good working surface, but without getting into too much detail, wasn’t mounted properly on the wall. The electric in the room needed to be updated, along with added a heat source since my home is located in Wisconsin and the small space heater that I had wasn’t working. The flooring was okay but didn’t extend all the way to the walls and thus I tore that up and laid new flooring. It had wonderful built in bookshelves that needed to be painted but the trim work was lacking. Therefore, after several months, of painting, laying floor, having my husband put trim work up, replacing an entrance door for more light, removing a poorly constructed storage space, updating the lighting, adding a Heat source with A/C, I was finally ready to move in.

Unpacking gave me a chance to sort and organize my piles of messes. I ended up buying a second office chair when the first one (pictured), just didn’t feel right. Buying office furniture was a little difficult during COVID, because everything had to be ordered. My desk came with a broken work surface and I waited a few more months for a replacement.

Therefore, I might not have done a lot of research; I did still manage to start a project with my sister-in-law on her mother’s maiden name line. A family member started a family tree about 20 years ago and she was given the task to update her branch and I talked her into doing all the branches.

Now I am looking towards my genealogy goals for next year, since I really didn’t set any for last year. I want to get back to many projects that have been sitting on the shelf. I also decided to start a “Bullet Journal” to keep me on track with not only my genealogy projects but the many other things that round out my life. Gardening, canning, crocheting, home improvements, golfing, exercise, TV watching, writing blog post so on.

Good luck with your Genealogy Research and Goals for 2022 and I will do my best to keep to all my Goals for 2022. See ya in the New Year.