Genealogy Fun with the SNGF Genea-Lympics - Week 3

The Saturday Night Genealogy Fun(SNGF) Genea-lympics ARE ON...a friendly competition (mainly against myself...) - see Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - the SNGF Genealympics I,  Week 2 and Week 3 for details, how to compete, etc.  See Announcing the Summer 2008 Genea-Blogger Group Games! for the 2008 Genea-Blogger Group Games events and medals.  It is not necessary to post only on a Saturday or to complete everything in one evening or one week. This can be an effort over two weeks.

1)  Here is my competition flag:

2)  I committed two weeks ago to several long term events.  Here are my results in those events:

a.  In the "Go Back and Cite Your Sources" event (see definition in Announcing the Summer 2008 Genea-Blogger Group Games !), I started the event with 29,178 source citations.  As of today, I have 29,375 Source citations, which is good for a Platinum Medal!

b.  In the "Organize Your Research" event (see definition in Announcing the Summer 2008 Genea-Blogger Group Games !), I performed these tasks:

* Copied, then labelled more than 20 digital files (of scanned documents) from my Scan 2012 file folder into my Ancestor Files>Surname>FamilyName>Documents file folders.

*  Copied, then labelled more than 20 digital photographs from my Old Pictures file folder into my Ancestor Files>Surname>FamilyName>Photographs file folders.

*  Created over 280 Events in my genealogy database since 31 July 2012.

These three achievements earned me a Gold Medal.

c.  In the "Research Plan" event (see definition in Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - the SNGF Genealympics I), I completed only one Research Plan:

*  See Research Summary - Joshua Smith of Brookline, NH.  However, it is not really a research plan, is it?  I just realized that!  So I did not qualify for a medal.  Now I'm glad I didn't do five of them...

3)  From this week's three new Events (see Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - the SNGF Genealympics- Week 3), here are my entries:

a.  In the "1940 U.S. Census Race" event, I have found the Virgil Carringer family in previous work.  I will post the medal winners in a separate post.  I will not compete in this event.

b.  In the "Online Person Search for Facts" event, I have found all of those items (except one!) in previous work, and will not compete in this event.

c.  In the "Genealogy Book Collection" event, I don't have The Source, Red Book, or Carmack's Organizing book, so I have 12 out of the 15.  The Source and Red Book are on the Ancestry.com Family History Wiki so I have online access to them, but I don't "own" them.  Therefore, I earned a Diamond Medal.

4)  So the Medal Count for this week is:

1 Gold
1 Diamond
1 Platinum.

5)  The Medal count for the three weeks is:

0 Bronze
1 Silver
4 Gold
3 Diamond
2 Platinum

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