While 2019 was not as bad a year as 2018 for meeting my genealogy goals, it wasn't entirely successful. I didn't make any of the road trips I'd wanted to take, and there's a few projects I wanted to work on that I never got around to doing. On the other hand, I made some discoveries about my Mom's German ancestors and about my Dad's Cape Cod families, so 2019 was not a total failure.
Here are my 2019 geneaplans, with the results in red:
1.Continue adding more of my ancestors siblings and their lines to my database.
This is one of the things I manage to get accomplished every year.
2. Get off my butt and actually visit the places my ancstors lived and are buried here in Massachusetts. I didn't do any road trips in 2017. Getting out of my apartment oncethe weather turns warm is better for my health, too.
Failed again, even though the car was running most of the yer.
3.This year I'm going to set a more practical goal for my blogging: to reach at least 200 posts in this blog and to post anything, anything at all, in my Graveyard Rabbits blog.
Semi successful. I did post a few times on Graveyard Rabbits. And although I didn't make 200 posts on this blog I did pass last year's total so I'm satisfied.
4. Take and post more photos for Find A Grave. Another way toi get me off my butt and out of the apartment.
Although it wasn't a lot I did manage to find a few requests.
5. Continue to stay organized: Keep putting images I download into the folder they belong in immediately,
Another good year organizational wise.
6. Transcribe more of the wills and probate files I've downloaded already.
I did some but I am waaaay behind on this.
7. Find and download the wills and probate files of female ancestors.
Only did a few but it's a start.
8. Keep working on the timeline for my ancestors who were involved in the Colonial New England Indian wars, including those who were captured.
I made some progress on this lately, and have posted the story of my Tarbell relatives who were captives. I will be posting about the Longley's next.
9. Go back and finish the series about the "Hot Mess" probate file of ancestor Nathaniel Stowe which I forgot to finish in May 2015. (Probably because it's such a "hot mess").
Big fail again . Didn't even look at the file for a second year..
10. Write more about my ancestor Gov. John Endecott. I keep pushing it aside, I think, because he did somethings that were nasty.
Nope. Not yet.
11.Keep having fun with genealogy!
I always do!
And as I say every year, I hope to do better this coming year.
2 comments:
Happy New Year Bill and good luck with your 2020 plans!
From my point of view, I'd say your past year was a big success! All the best with 2020 plans and goals. Of course, now I'm wondering about the "hot mess" post-to-come!
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