Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Genealogy Goals for 2025

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)  What are your genealogy goals for 2025?  Consider genealogy research, education, organizing, service, writing, and whatever else you care to share.

2) Tell us about your goals in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook Status  post.  Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.

Here's mine:

Many of these are continuations from my 2024 goals - I don't seem to ever completely finish a task!

1)  Write weekly "52 Ancestors" and/or "52 Relatives" genealogical sketches, and add them to my Ancestry Member Tree profiles and to the FamilySearch Family Tree life stories.

2)  Write weekly "Amanuensis Monday," "Treasure Chest Thursday," and "Seavers in the News" posts for persons in my database, and add the record transcriptions and source citations to profiles in my family tree.

3)  Research descendants of my 4th great-grandparents, mainly to support finding lines to my DNA matches.  Write 6-generation reports for lines that are nearly complete.

4)  Search Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, Findmypast and American Ancestors for new information to add relationships, events, names, dates, places, sources, images and notes to the profiles in my RootsMagic family tree.  

5)  Create PDF ancestry reports for ancestral families of myself and my second great-grandparents, plus descendant reports for key surname groups, using genealogy software and put them on Scribd (I last did this in 2012).   

6)  NEW:  Continue to explore ways to use existing and new Artificial intelligence tools to enhance my genealogy and family history research, including improving my knowledge base, shortening research time, and sharing family stories.  

7)  NEW:  Continue to convert current place names to historical place names as required, and to upgrade the Person Notes and sources in my RootsMagic family tree.

8)  Work on the photograph collections on the computer, and do enhancement and colorization using MyHeritage and Ancestry photo tools as necessary.  Share not-seen-before photos on "Wordless Wednesday" blog posts.  Add more family photos to my RootsMagic family tree and FamilySearch Family Tree profiles.

9)  Chase more autosomal DNA matches to find common ancestors when possible using AncestryDNA ThruLines and ProTools, MyHeritage ToFRs, and using my "skeleton tree" on Ancestry.  

10)  Make more photograph slide shows for myself, Linda, my parents, and my grandparents, including photographs and records to tell their stories.  Narrate Zoom videos of the slide shows and share them on my YouTube channel with my family members.

11)  Serve the Chula Vista Genealogical Society on the Board of Directors as newsletter editor and Research/DNA chair, organize and present monthly Research Group and DNA Interest Group meetings on Zoom, and attend and contribute to the in-person education group meetings.

12)  Watch more Family Tree Webinars and YouTube videos, attend CVGS, SDGS and WAGS program Zoom meetings, and attend RootsTech 2025 virtually, in order to keep up-to-date with research techniques, and new genealogy industry features.

Only 12 goals, and they are all achievable if I find the time to do them over the next 12 months.  I hope for a B grade at best, but I will try!

Notice I didn't put clearing out the paper from the genealogy cave, attending a conference in-person, or some other impossible at this time goal.

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