{"id":977,"date":"2009-05-01T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-16\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T00:09:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:09:48","slug":"weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong>\u00a0 Goals. Not just for resolutions anymore. Write down your genealogy goals. Then you can look back and see what you\u2019ve accomplished.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Back in December, I made my genealogy-related New Year&#8217;s Resolutions, which are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accept that try as I might, I cannot always find the answer.<\/li>\n<li>Learn more about the lives of my ancestors, focusing more on the how and why, not just the who, what, when, and where.<\/li>\n<li>Blog more, by sharing my ancestors&#8217; stories and helping fellow family historians.<\/li>\n<li>Transcribe more records than I did in 2008.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are very general, and over the last few months, I have developed more specific goals that I am now focusing on.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I plan to work on and hope to accomplish by the end of the year:<\/p>\n<p>Implement a website devoted to my family tree.\u00a0 While Ancestry&#8217;s public\/private trees a wonderful, it&#8217;s not very easy to update them; you have to upload a new one and delete the old one.\u00a0 If I had a public tree, this would not be so much of an issue, but with a private tree, I have to go back and re-invite people to give them access to the new updated tree.\u00a0 With my own site, I can maintain access myself and update as needed.<\/p>\n<p>With my recent admission into the DAR, I&#8217;ve already started to involve myself in some volunteer projects.\u00a0 One in particular deals with inputting application data into a database.\u00a0 You download ten applications at a time.\u00a0 I figure if I can do ten a week, I will have completed 340 application entries by the end of the year.\u00a0 As much as I&#8217;d love to devote all of my time to my research, I feel it&#8217;s important to help others as well, and this is one way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Also DAR-related, is proving another ancestor&#8217;s service.\u00a0 I originally tried to go in under Joseph PARKS, my seventh great-grandfather, but they are now questioning his service.\u00a0 Instead of having me prove it, they had me go in under his son, Robert (my sixth great-grandfather), who&#8217;s service was proven.\u00a0 So one of my new goals is to prove Joseph&#8217;s service.\u00a0 I hope to complete this by the end of the year, but realize this one might take more time.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it.\u00a0 Three of my major goals for this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt:\u00a0 Goals. Not just for resolutions anymore. Write down your genealogy goals. 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