1. There are quite a brick walls in my family tree; people where I’m stuck and can’t find much information and can’t get back to the previous generation. I certainly can’t get past all of them but there are a few that have blocked me for a long time. I will be working on those this year:
Harriet Barecolt Wormuth; Eleanor Debeck Wormuth; Joseph Odell; Ezra Oliver; and Catherine M. Odell.
2. WikiTree has standards. When you create a profile there, the web site lets you know if you’ve made a mistake. It also creates a list of “suggestions” that let you know that something in a profile is not quite up to standards. These can be as simple as mis-formatting something to something serious, like entering a “unique” name, meaning that name is nowhere else in the database, like Barecolt. The suggestions can sit there, you can try to fix them or someone else might fix one. Once you’ve made a correction, you indicate that and it’s reviewed and either disappears, is altered, or remains until it’s fixed. I will be working on as suggestions regularly this year.
3. That brings me to workload. Family history is work and I had planned for it to be that before I retired. It hasn’t quite worked out that way but, this year, I will create a schedule for regular research activities so I can get a little done on most of my projects throughout the year.
4. The schedule:
• I have a lot of family photos, they’re mostly all over the place. I need to scan and organize them I will try to scan at least 5 photos a day.
• Review all of my WikiTree profiles to be sure that I have at least birth, marriage and death information; parents; and children; and that my profiles each conform to a style that I have developed.
• Further define my research schedule with daily, weekly and monthly tasks.
That’s it. It’s a lot but it’s mostly trying to be organized and routine so things get done and I know what’s been done and what still has to be done.
Wish me luck.
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