Showing posts with label in review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label in review. Show all posts

Sunday, January 16, 2022

In Revew: 2022 v2

 I feel like I've done a lot this past week. Here are some of the highlights.

  • Continued working on my FT&B Archive blog. I have enough done, and enough on there that I want to link to, that I made it 'live'. It will continue to be updated over the next several weeks, but you can browse what is there now. 
  • There have been some major updates at Find A Grave regarding who can post recent deaths and who is a required transfer. As part of the upgrade you can now indicate how you are related on memorials you manage. I spent some time adding relationships to several of my memorials. You can read about the changes here and here.
  • In the process, I found a major problem with my mother-in-law's memorial. It indicates that she had a half-sister; that her mother gave birth to another daughter. I suggested an edit explaining why I believe it to be in error. I had some pretty solid reasons that I may blog about later. The end result is that the manager transferred the memorial to me. I will be working on that very soon!
  • Scanned 16 photos from the Hixon Family collection.
  • Chatted with a cousin about our grandparents' wedding photos and who may be in them. Did some preliminary research trying to figure it out. It's probably going to take ordering the marriage license to see who witnessed the marriage.
  • Posted Week 2 for the 52 ancestors challenge. I'm keeping up! 🤣 I also posted one of my scanned photos for my Photo Friday post.
  • Indexed 100 Missouri death certificates. (The 1971 certificates have just been released. If you want to help with the indexing project, sign up here.)

That's it. I still haven't done much 'real' genealogy. January might be a 'getting ready' month!

Sunday, January 9, 2022

In Review: 2022 v1

 One thing I want to do this year, in addition to more blogging, is to share what I've done. This usually doesn't happen because I feel like I have to wait until I am 'done' before I post about it. So this year I am going to try to 'post as I go'. I'd like to say I will post every week, but I'm not sure if I will. However, I do hope to post periodically about what I've been doing—a very brief review of things I've worked. If I get to the point I feel 'done', or even if I feel I've done 'enough', I will post about it. My review posts will be more like an outline, so that I can go back and see what I've done and when. It won't really be a 'research log', but in some ways will serve a similar purpose. It will let me go back and see when I was working on a particular person, etc, so that I may have a better chance of finding the details of what I did three years ago. We will see how it works out, but for now, this is what I've worked on in the past couple of weeks.

  • I started up this blog. 
  • I began a new 'archive' blog and began moving posts from my old blog there. As I mention earlier, I am moving away from the old blog because I feel that if I don't, someday it will move away from me! When my archive blog is up and running, I'll leave a link in the sidebar here.
  • Began organizing photos for scanning

That's it for now. I haven't done much in the way of genealogy research. This has been more a week of getting organized.

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