Tag Archives: Theme: 12 Week Research Challenge

Week 4 of the 12 Week Research Challenge is about documentation. The goal was to add or fix documentation. I actually started a “fix citation” project many years ago. I started with myself and moved backward on each line, fixing the (really terrible) citations I […]

Week 3 of the 12 Week Research Challenge focuses on growing your tree, particularly the most recent generations. Because we typically know these people, we tend to neglect them in our tree. So the challenge was to make sure that these folks (parents, grandparents, aunts, […]

Week 2 of the 12 Week Research Challenge centers on planting your tree. For the beginner challenge, it’s about selecting one place to store and organize your data. For the intermediate challenge, it’s about creating a second tree to take advantage of record hints, connect […]

I decided to accept Janet Hovorka’s 12 Week Research Challenge and thought I’d write about my progress each week. The idea of the challenge is to help genealogists and family historians learn and grow. Each week a new challenge is delivered via email. There are […]