April felt like a really long month! I’m happy to say that I was able to do at least some genealogy research every day. But I don’t think I managed to do 900 minutes’ worth over the whole month. I’m really proud of my daily research, because I didn’t let travel get in the way. I was out of town nine of the 30 days.
Even though I didn’t manage 30 minutes every day, I think that doing at least a little bit of research each day was really beneficial. It kept me connected to my research and my ancestors and made getting started at any given session much easier. I’m looking forward to attending the NGS conference next week and it’ll be nice to be so connected with my research as I learn.
It’s May 3 and I didn’t research on the 1st and 2nd (I think I needed a break), but I’m looking forward to getting back into the swing of frequent (if not daily) research.
How about you? If you participated in the challenge, how’d it go? Did you find it beneficial?
The 30×30 Challenge worked great. I worked a minimum 45 minutes each day, 5 days a week. I decided to incorporate this into my schedule.
Cheri, you’re a rock star! I’m so glad it went so well for you!
I worked on photos/scanning every day except the three I was out of town. Although I still have a LONG ways to go with all of that, it felt good to make it a priority. During that process I found various genealogy resource notes that I had, and I’m hoping to actually do some RESEARCH in May! Thanks for the challenge!
That’s fantastic, Carol. I’m sure that four weeks of daily scanning made a big dent! Congrats.
I think I’ll try this in June when I have a less busy schedule. This April I participated in the A to Z blog challenge and that forced me to spend daily time finding ancestors to fit the letter of the day, then research them more in-depth, and write about them. I’m really happy with some of my findings.
The A to Z blog challenge sounds pretty amazing! Congrats on completing it, Virginia!
I did the challenge also Virginia – it took a lot more time than I expected because I had to do research for many of the letters…..Still it was a good way to discipline myself to write up some of the research findings I already had
I put certain genealogy tasks on my daily “To Do” list. I don’t get to all of them every day, but I at least do some of them. I have a backlog of pictures I need to scan, and it’s pretty overwhelming. I put “Scan 1 photo” on my list and the pile got a bit smaller. Although, by scan I mean scan it, photoshop it, put it in my genealogy program, create a source citation, put the photo in the ancestry.com gallery, add it to the correct album on Google photos, put it in the correct album on my laptop, and send a copy of the photo and citation to my daughter, who also researches. I do better when I completely process things as I find them. Yes, I do all of that with everything.
I decided that I would research newspapers for this 30×30 challenge specifically on my 2X great grandfather, John Denson. Through this research I was able to find my 2nd cousin (his grandfather and my great grandfather were brothers). I found his address online and wrote him a letter. We were able to talk on the phone yesterday. Hopefully we will get to meet sometime this summer. So I would say this was a very successful. Thank you for this challenge and inspiring me to continue my research.
I got one 30 minute session of genealogy research done in April. While that’s not great, considering what was going on in my personal life, I’ll take it. I at least got a little bit of research done.
Absolutely! Some effort is better than no effort! Here’s hoping you’ll be able to do more research in the future (assuming that’s your goal).