Thursday, August 14, 2008

My Genealympics - Days 3 to 5

I'm competing in the Genealympics (well, the Genea-bloggers Group Games) - see the details here.

Unfortunately, I've neglected to detail my meagre achievements over the last three days, so I'm going to summarize them here:

3. ORGANIZE YOUR RESEARCH

B. I created a new filing system for my digital files - one where each family has a file name (by ahnentafel number) and with sub-directories for different types of digital records - vitals, census, military, probate, reports, etc. I need to transfer as many digital files already on my computer into this reorganized filing system.

D. I added over 30 family photographs to my digital photo files, and changed the file names to something descriptive. I'm still learning how metadata, tags and the like happen.

5. REACH OUT AND PERFORM GENEALOGICAL ACTS OF KINDNESS

C. I invited Debbie Atchley, Dean Richardson and Harold Henderson to join Facebook. Debbie and Dean were already on Facebook, and members of the Genea-Bloggers Group too, but I didn't know it. Harold is on Facebook, and said he would join the Genea-Bloggers Group. I invited three, does that count toward the medal?

So my status in these two events are:

3. ORGANIZE YOUR RESEARCH

A. Not Started
B. Started, Incomplete.
C. 55% complete
D. Completed
E. Not started
F. Not started

5. REACH OUT AND PERFORM GENEALOGICAL ACTS OF KINDNESS

A. Completed
B. Completed
C. Completed (I think)
D. In work
E. In work
F. Not started

I really do my best work when I'm up against a deadline...

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