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It was another crazy year, but one focused on self-care. That said, I didn’t spend much time on my business this year (outside of contract work). Instead, I concentrated on my personal research, special projects, and creative outlets. While I didn’t meet all of my 2024 goals, let’s see what I did accomplish and what my plans are for 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 Accomplishments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2705 I completed the Copyediting Certificate Program through Writer\u2019s Digest. It was a great course, and I learned some new things while reinforcing my editing skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2705 I attended the SLIG 2024 Spring Virtual, Gothic Script and Fraktur Workshop<\/em> with Warren Bittner and Methods and Strategies for Slavery Era Research<\/em> at the Midwest African American Genealogy Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u274e I did not finish writing my book. In fact, I don’t think I made any progress on it at all in 2024. I am not even sure this will carry over into goals for 2025. I am going in a different direction and not sure if I can do both projects at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udfe9 I did continue working on my genealogy hub in Notion<\/a>, but I am still not where I want to be with it. The idea is to have my hub mesh with my problem-solving framework<\/a>, and I am still working through how this looks in Notion (but it’s getting there!). The challenge is that there have been so many great enhancements in Notion since I initially built my hub, meaning there is even more I can do (this is the nerd in me coming out!!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udfe9 I really<\/em> wanted to finish Katherine Schober\u2019s German for Genealogists<\/em> course. I did, however, make progress. During SLIG in early 2024, I also went through lessons from both of Katherine’s courses<\/a> (the other being Reading the Old German Handwriting<\/em>), but I did this haphazardly so that I could focus on the lessons that were the same or similar across all three at the same time. Therefore, there are still a few lessons in each course I need to finish, which I WILL do in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u274e While I wanted to publish at least one short guide\/booklet in 2024, it never made it to my priority list. Although it won’t go on my goal list, it is still an open project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udfe9 Although not on my goal list, I took a somewhat impromptu trip to Salt Lake City, where I spent a week researching and sightseeing. My research focus was on my Hessen ancestors, and after sorting out the filming situation (don’t ask!), I was able to find all sorts of church records for my family. I was even able to push back two generations in some cases, and there’s still more work ahead. It’s been great meeting these ancestors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a bit of a theme for 2025, and that is getting caught up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2733\ufe0f Learn German. I declared this as a New Year’s resolution and started immediately on the first of January. The goal is to complete at least one lesson per day. I am using Rosetta Stone and to date, I have already completed the first unit, which was 37 lessons (clearly I’ve done more than one a day…I’m really enjoying it). There are 19 remaining units, each with 39 lessons, so at the one-a-day pace, I should be able to get through nine units, if not one or two more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2733\ufe0f Finish Katherine\u2019s courses<\/a> German for Genealogists<\/em> and Reading the Old German Handwriting<\/em>. As I said above, I’m just about done with both!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2733\ufe0f Starting in February, I plan to publish at least one instructional video to my YouTube<\/a> channel<\/a> each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2733\ufe0f Attend three institutes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n