{"id":792,"date":"2010-01-26T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/52-weeks-to-better-genealogy-challenge-3-assess-yourself\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T00:59:17","slug":"52-weeks-to-better-genealogy-challenge-3-assess-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/52-weeks-to-better-genealogy-challenge-3-assess-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Weeks to Better Genealogy \u2013 Challenge #3, Assess Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge for week 3 is:\u00a0 Assess Yourself!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You\u2019re great at researching everyone else\u2019s history, but how much of your own have you recorded? Do an assessment of your personal records and timeline events to ensure your own life is as well-documented as that of your ancestors. If you have a genealogy blog, write about the status of your own research and steps you may take to fill gaps and document your own life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis is something I actually took the time to do awhile ago.\u00a0 I\u2019m probably the most complete person in my genealogy database!\u00a0 My birth, baptism, and marriage, are of course recorded, and the certificates are in my possession.\u00a0 But I also have items listed such as residences (where and when), schools (where, when, graduation dates), jobs (where, when), memberships (professional, academic, personal), and other assorted events (music competitions, family weddings attended, my confirmation, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>This challenge did prompt me to do some updating, as a few things needed to be updated, as well as added.\u00a0 Below is a screenshot of part of my own timeline.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"timeline\" alt=\"timeline\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/S16HnN9-gSI\/AAAAAAAAFYA\/QcSGlm1pO2U\/timeline%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"302\" height=\"387\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wish I had half of this type of information for my ancestors.\u00a0 Maybe in time, I will get there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge for week 3 is:\u00a0 Assess Yourself! You\u2019re great at researching everyone else\u2019s history, but how much of your own have you recorded? Do an assessment of your personal records and timeline events to ensure your own life is as well-documented as that of [&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-792","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-cM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}