The topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy will be: New Year's Resolutions! This year is almost over and a new decade is knocking on the door. This is the perfect time to make your New Year resolutions, goals, aims, declarations, intentions, aspirations, objectives, plans, targets, schemes, wishes, or whatever you want to call them! Figure out how you're going to approach your family history research next year, write it up, and share it with us in the COG. Thank you to Creative Gene for hosting this COG.
As the year closes on 2009, I have been thinking of what was accomplished this year in the genealogy side of my life and what I need to improve in 2010.
1. This year found me struggling to migrate my genealogy home page from one place to another. During the migration I realized how outdated much of the information was, how poor the resolution of the photos were and that many of my branches were not even mentioned. I hope that in 2010 I will make the time to continue improving the Linda Hughes Hiser Home Page for Genealogy.
2. I made a valid attempt to get more of my sources on my Family Tree Maker program, however I have so much more to do.
3. As a contributor out on Find-A-Grave, I have hundreds of new entries that are waiting for me to find the time to add online. The photos are taken and need to be resized.
4. I have so enjoyed blogging on Flipside and meeting all the wonderful geneablogger family. I hope to be able to continue in 2010 with the gusto of 2009.
5. I began several series on Flipside and I hope to continue writing on them. Stories in Stone and Growing up Hughes have been personally rewarding to research and write.
6. I have a need to make more time in the evening to catch up with the blogs of my fellow geneabloggers….reading and making comments.
7. I hope to reacquaint with new relations through the Internet. To accomplish this I need to work harder to follow up leads on various websites and e-mailing those who are working on my branches out on ancestry.
8. Ancestry….I need to get back to my genealogy work on that site and continue documenting….documenting….documenting.
9. Photo scanning. A project I began this year, but I have so many more to do.
10. Reorganizing my genealogy hard copy. I have my computer genealogy files in pretty decent order, but my hard copy files are a disaster. I need new and better file folders and need to clear out more space in my file cabinet so what I have is not so smashed together.
And finally, last but probably first.....I REALLY have a need to clean up my computer work space. I think Randy had a SNGF months ago asking for photos of our workspace. I was too embarassed then to do the post and most assuredly, it is even worse now ;-)
I think my work is cut out for me this year. How can I ever accomplish this….find the time…..without quitting my job? Good question! © 2009, copyright Linda Hughes Hiser
I'm on my way....beginning with the last of my geneablogger New Year's resolutions...to clean up my computer workspace. Not only is it a mess of gigantic proportions......I can't even see my screen since one of my cats, Pseudylous enjoys sleeping on the piles of papers stacked in front of it. The photo actually seems to make the area look better than it really is....if that's possible ; )
