This is what my crochet looks like this morning.
In some ways, this is a fantastic analogy for where my genealogy is at just now.
Over the flu season, particularly into the run up to Christmas and crossing into January this year, I've suddenly had one of those periods where various lines exploded one way and another (including a period where a friend who was also unwell spent a few days digging on a side line as a change of scene and gave me this fabulous gift of a whole load of new information to play with).
The position as at today is, a quick glance at my all 'All Relatives' tree on Ancestry is currently sitting at 1028 members, but, since I'm behind on updating all my various trees in various formats, I know that figure is off. I also recently connected with a potential cousin, who, if we can definitely prove our link, may introduce over 400 new to me people.
The plan of action as of now is:
* Sort out why my GedCom isn't being 'liked'/accepted by certain platforms.
* Continue working to copy all the existing ancestors across to all platforms (I currently have fragmented information spread across RootsMagic, GenesReunited, Family Tree Circles, GeneaWiki and various other places). In an absolutely ideal world, it would be great to have everything match absolutely, so that I can really work on pushing out to new generations.
* Update the paper tree when all the online ones are fixed.
* Figure out some kind of nice mounting system for the current paper tree so that we can display it properly.
* Finish off my four generations project for my licensing exam. - Shooting for sitting the May level 1 exam if at all possible.
When all of that is sorted, there's a lot of tasks that should be a lot of fun that need attention.
More on those as we hit them.
In the meantime, since we're still technically in February and I'm therefore only technically a month behind, I'm now (having spent January and February learning all about it) confident enough to have got this thing going (even if it's dry so far, at least it's started) and can now join in properly with the Knitting Genealogists group (find us on ravelry) 2016 challenge of trying to write about a relative at least once a month.
If nothing else, at least if I try and hold myself to genealogy Mondays, hopefully I can get more of the knot untangled.
The position as at today is, a quick glance at my all 'All Relatives' tree on Ancestry is currently sitting at 1028 members, but, since I'm behind on updating all my various trees in various formats, I know that figure is off. I also recently connected with a potential cousin, who, if we can definitely prove our link, may introduce over 400 new to me people.
The plan of action as of now is:
* Sort out why my GedCom isn't being 'liked'/accepted by certain platforms.
* Continue working to copy all the existing ancestors across to all platforms (I currently have fragmented information spread across RootsMagic, GenesReunited, Family Tree Circles, GeneaWiki and various other places). In an absolutely ideal world, it would be great to have everything match absolutely, so that I can really work on pushing out to new generations.
* Update the paper tree when all the online ones are fixed.
* Figure out some kind of nice mounting system for the current paper tree so that we can display it properly.
* Finish off my four generations project for my licensing exam. - Shooting for sitting the May level 1 exam if at all possible.
When all of that is sorted, there's a lot of tasks that should be a lot of fun that need attention.
More on those as we hit them.
In the meantime, since we're still technically in February and I'm therefore only technically a month behind, I'm now (having spent January and February learning all about it) confident enough to have got this thing going (even if it's dry so far, at least it's started) and can now join in properly with the Knitting Genealogists group (find us on ravelry) 2016 challenge of trying to write about a relative at least once a month.
If nothing else, at least if I try and hold myself to genealogy Mondays, hopefully I can get more of the knot untangled.
