Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Genealogy Goals for 2026

 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 2026?  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 2025 goals - I don't seem to ever completely finish a task!

1)  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.

2)  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.  

3)  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.  

4)  NEW: Create more ABC Biographies and AI-assisted family stories for selected ancestral lines (e.g., Seaver, Carringer, Auble, Revolutionary War soldiers, Linda's ancestors, etc.).  Create Video Overviews, Infographics and Slide Shows for some of them.  Add the biographies to my RootsMagic family tree.

5)  NEW: Start writing eBooks using the ABC Biographies and AI-assisted family stories and send them to my close family (children, grandchildren, siblings, cousins, etc.).

6)  NEW:  Update and Maintain the Genea-Musings pages for Randy's AI and Genealogy and AI and Genealogy Compendium.  

7)  NEW:  Add to and mintain the Randy Seaver, Geneaholic YouTube channel. 

8)  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.

9)  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.

10)  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.  

11)  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.

12)  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 Family History Roundtable meetings on Zoom, and attend and contribute to the in-person education group meetings.

13)  Watch more Family Tree Webinars and YouTube videos, attend CVGS and SDGS program Zoom meetings, and attend RootsTech 2026 virtually, in order to keep up-to-date with research techniques, and new genealogy industry features.

Only 13 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.

Here is an Infographic by Google NotebookLM to depict my goals visually: 

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