{"id":6432,"date":"2020-09-30T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=6432"},"modified":"2021-02-01T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:03:04","slug":"my-editorship-has-come-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/my-editorship-has-come-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"My Editorship Has Come to an End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/maarten-deckers-ALnAndLjlNQ-unsplash-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/maarten-deckers-ALnAndLjlNQ-unsplash-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/maarten-deckers-ALnAndLjlNQ-unsplash-850x478.jpg 850w, https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/maarten-deckers-ALnAndLjlNQ-unsplash-250x141.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow, October 1, 2020, the Federation of Genealogical Societies will officially merge with the National Genealogical Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m happy about the merger, and hope that the \u201cnew NGS\u201d will keep the mission of FGS alive and well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bummer is, I will no longer serve as the managing editor for FGS\u2019s <em>FORUM <\/em>magazine. I am a little sad because I have enjoyed the last five years working with so many wonderful people, and don\u2019t want to see it end. I\u2019m thrilled that FGS took a chance on me back in 2015, and that I got the chance to serve the genealogy community in this manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>For fun, I thought I\u2019d pull together some numbers (what genealogist doesn&#8217;t love data?!), just to see what in the world I have done over the last 5 years. Let\u2019s have a look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li># of issues produced = 19<\/li><li># of feature articles edited = 113<\/li><li># of column articles edited = 118<\/li><li># of reviews edited = 161<\/li><li># of authors worked with = 73<\/li><li># of reviewers worked with = 10 (3 were also article authors)<\/li><li># of books I read\/reviewed = 27<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow! I had the honor to personally work with more than 70 different authors\/reviewers, and I edited nearly 400 submissions. I had absolutely no idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sad that it\u2019s come to an end, but it\u2019s been my pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, October 1, 2020, the Federation of Genealogical Societies will officially merge with the National Genealogical Society. I\u2019m happy about the merger, and hope that the \u201cnew NGS\u201d will keep the mission of FGS alive and well. The bummer is, I will no longer serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","cat-25-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-1FK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}