It\u2019s now June, so I thought I\u2019d take a look at my genealogy New Year\u2019s resolutions for 2009 and see how I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n
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I resolved to…<\/p>\n
Accept that try as I might, I cannot always find the answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n I have accepted this in general, but I have, and still will stumble with this.<\/p>\n Learn more about the lives of my ancestors, focusing more on the how and why, not just the who, what, when, and where.<\/strong><\/p>\n My research has been a little slow the past several of months.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had some great finds along the way, but no huge discoveries.\u00a0 Just haven\u2019t had a lot of time to \u201clearn\u201d more.<\/p>\n Blog more, by sharing my ancestors’ stories and helping fellow family historians.<\/strong><\/p>\n Been doing this!<\/p>\n Transcribe more records than I did in 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n Really been doing this!\u00a0 Since becoming an official DAR member in late April, I\u2019ve probably transcribed more records in one month than I did all of last year.\u00a0 Have also done some work for FamilySearch.<\/p>\n Make a decision as to what level I want to take genealogy to (the family historian? a professional? another direction?) and make a plan for how to get there.<\/strong><\/p>\n Still wrestling with this.\u00a0 People always say, \u201cdo what you love,\u201d and I do love this.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019m just not sure if I could make a living out of it.\u00a0 Any words of advice??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s now June, so I thought I\u2019d take a look at my genealogy New Year\u2019s resolutions for 2009 and see how I\u2019m doing.<\/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-943","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-fd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}