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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Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver
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