Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along; cue the Mission: Impossible! music!):
(1) It's the New Year, and many readers have already made resolutions, or goals, or plans for one or more tasks or projects. Or they haven't yet, but could or should.
(2) For this SNGF, please tell us what plans you've made, or what goals you've stated, or what resolutions you've averred for 2020. Writing them down may help you achieve them. Do one or more as you wish.
(3) Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link on this post so readers can find your resolutions/goals/plans.
I think I will set myself two genealogy goals for 2020:
1. I will get back to work on finding the ever elusive Mr. X (probably Mundy), my paternal grandfather's biological father. I've gone back far enough with no lines that come down to the present day that if/when I finally find someone connected to this line, it will be a distant enough cousin that DNA will probably not be helpful. So I'm going to change my approach to looking for more documentation for my likely candidate, in particular photographs. If I can find a photo of Bert Mundy and he looks a lot like my grandfather, I may grudgingly accept that as "proof" that he was my boilogical great-grandfather.
2. I want to catch up on data entry in my family tree program. I actually coughed up good money to retrieve all the data from my failed hard drive, including Family Tree Maker. Now I need to see if it will run in a virtual environment on my Mac so that I can continue using the program I like.
Good luck on your goals for 2020.
ReplyDeleteYou too, Lisa!
DeleteI hope you enjoy the Blog Party!
ReplyDeleteWishing you best of luck with your FTM data. Three years ago I switched to Roots Magic for my Mac so I can sync all my Ancestry trees. It gets the job done, but I do hope the new version due in 2020 has a better interface.
ReplyDeleteWow, I just found your message in the unmoderated comments. So sorry it took so long to post! I'm still most comfortable with FTM, although I do now have RootsMagic installed on my PC.
DeleteModest goals, yes, but your change of direction with goal #1 allows for lots of time for data entry. :)
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought of it that way. Thanks for the encouraging perspective!
DeleteI had a hard drive failure last year and it was so painful. I hope you don't have that happen again. Do you have an additional back up? I'm using Backblaze for catastrophic failures.
ReplyDeleteThis was an unusual situation. I have a back-up for my primary computer (a Mac), but I didn't have one for my PC laptop, which was still running an old version of the OS. The PC is the one that crashed. I have a new PC laptop now, and it is being backed up.
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