It’s already September 18, so we’re more than half-way through the September 30 x 30 challenge, in which folks committed to their version of doing 30 minutes of genealogy research every day for 30 days. How’s it going? Please let us know in the comments.
As I said in the post establishing this month’s challenge, I’m not focusing on genealogy research as much right now. So my goal for this challenge was simply to do something (anything) around genealogy research every day this month. I haven’t fully succeeded–some days went by where I did not touch my genealogy. But I can tell you this: So far this month I’ve done more genealogy work than I would have if this challenge weren’t going on. So I’m really grateful for that.
How about you? If you’re participating in the challenge, how’s it going?
If you’re not participating but you’re intrigued, feel free to jump in right now and have a 13 x 30 challenge. I’ll post again on the last day of the month so everyone can report on how they did.
Well more than 30 minutes a day. Closer to 60 on average.
That’s excellent!
I’ve been working on listing the “family groups” that I have- my computer program doesn’t do what I want on this, so I have been writing it out longhand – it has actually been quite helpful – I can see where I am missing information a little easier (like marriages, especially)…. I’m almost done with the list – my initial ancestor that I’m starting with had 8 kids – one of the lines has over 1000 families!
That sounds like quite a project, Christine! I find writing longhand can be helpful on a lot of things (I keep a bullet journal) and I use it when I’m brainstorming with my genealogy research. I hope the rest of the month continues to be productive!
I am a retired Prof Genealogist and I still spend every day researching my own ancestors and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Therefore, I recommend making a checklist of tasks you can accomplish in 30 minutes a day :)) Ellen
Thanks for the suggestion, Ellen!
So far so good. I’m being more focused, researching and learning techniques too. Although mostly frustrating, I have made a couple big discoveries!
Great job, Terry! Hang on the thrill of those discoveries so you can work past the frustration!