I guess it's OK to write this post now - I wrote over 940 blog posts in 2020, including some pretty good ones, IMHO. I want to list the "best ones" - according to me! They are the ones I want to be able to easily find later, or ones that might help another researcher. I'll list them in chronological order:
* Randy's Genealogy Activity Highlights for 2019 (1 January 2020)
* General Society of Mayflower Descendants Application Process - Step 1 (21 January 2020)
* Using MyHeritage Record Matches By Source to Enrich my Family Tree Profiles (5 February 2020)
* MyHeritage In Color™ Launched - Colorize Your Black and White Photos (12 February 2020)
* Randy's RootsTech Recap - Day 1 (Wednesday) (29 February 2020); - Day 2 (Thursday) (29 February 2020); - Day 3 (Friday) (29 February, 2020); - Day 4 (1 March 2020)
* The GeneaBloggers Lifetime Achievement Award (2 March 2020)
* Dear Randy: "What is the Best Way to Refresh My Online Trees?" (11 March 2020)
* Dear Randy: "What Do You Add To Your Family Tree For DNA Matches?" (18 March 2020)
* Dear Randy: "How Do You Keep Track of What You Write or Post?" (15 April 2020)
* Dear Randy: "Why Do You Add Alternate Names To Your Family Tree?" (29 April 2020)
* The Evolution of Obtaining Genealogy Record Images (6 May 2020)
* Dear Randy: "How Do I Cite My Autosomal DNA Test Results?" (6 May 2020)
* Did Sarah Giberson Marry Two Seaver Men? - Part I (18 May 2020), - Part II (20 May 2020), and - Part III (25 May 2020)
* Dear Randy - "Why Do You Use FamilySearch Family Tree?" (28 May 2020)
* Checking Out the WikiTree "Ancestor Listmaker" App (3 June 2020)
* Finding Richmans, Richs, and Marshmans in the Hilperton Land Tax Assessment Records, 1773-1793 - Part I and - Part II (22 June 2020)
* Where Are the "Holes" In My Pedigree Chart? Can DNA Help? - Post 1 (1 July 2020) and Post 2 (2 July 2020)
* Dear Randy: "How Can I Find Living Descendants with the Surname of a Historical Person?" (19 August 2020)
* Dear Randy: "How Do You Write Your 52 Ancestors Posts?" (2 September 2020)
* Finding the FamilySearch Family Tree Watchlist and a Surprise or Two! (15 September 2020)
* Lucky Find: 1928 Photograph of Great-Grandmother Georgianna (Kemp) Auble With Her Siblings (16 September 2020)
* Dear Randy: "How Do You Match and Update FamilySearch Family Tree Profiles?" (30 September 2020)
* Dear Randy: "Who Are Your Mayflower 1620 Ancestors?" (28 October 2020)
* Mining the Newspapers.com Obituary Index Record Hints on Ancestry (1 November 2020)
* How I Use Genealogy Software and Online Family Trees (11 November 2020)
* Tuesday's Tip - Check Out FamilySearch's Famous Relatives Page (17 November 2020)
* Mining the MyHeritage Newspaper Collections - Finding a 1939 Annie (Richmond) Pickford Obituary (18 November 2020)
* Dear Randy: "Why Do I Have So Few Known Common Ancestors in My DNA Matches?" (1 December 2020)
* Update on The Early New England Families (1641-1700) Study Project (8 December 2020)
* Dear Randy: "How Do You Manage To Do All You Do?" (9 December 2020)
* Dear Randy: "How Do You Make That Descendant List in Your 52 Ancestors Posts?" (16 December 2020)
45 of them ... and I could have added more. It is heavy with Dear Randy, DNA, and personal research posts, but those are the ones that I want to easily be able to find and those that might help another researcher.
I hope you enjoy clicking through some of these over the New Year's holiday. I did! It's funny (haha, not strange) that I don't recall writing some of them. More Gene-amnesia?
In addition, I transcribed and sourced many of the records and documents on hand in my weekly Amanuensis Monday and Treasure Chest Thursday posts, plus the ancestor biographies in the 52 Ancestors series.
With this list, I should be able to remember some of what I did wrote in 2020!
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#1 is the Geneabloggers Lifetime Achievement Award. Well deserved. :)
ReplyDeleteTY for the "best of" listing. I always learn something new from your "best of" weekly list of blog posts. Any time you write about RootsMagic, in particular, I get to explore some nifty feature I had no idea existed. Wishing you and Linda a good new year in 2021.
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