2011 Goals

Normally I don’t keep resolutions.  I don’t like setting myself up for a possible failure.  It’s worked well for me in the past but not so much anymore.  I started writing my goals Monday (27 December 2010) after reading Amy Coffin’s post regarding her blogging buddy and their upcoming resolutions.  Since Monday’s post by Amy, I read other genealogist’s goals and was amazed at the thought that went into their resolutions.  They actually made sense!

I may be proud but I’m not stupid.  I know a good idea when I see one.  I still have some questions and I may flounder a little but, luckily, I can turn to some awesome genealogists.

Resources to use:

Sorting Saturday – Digital Surname Sorting
Sorting Saturday – Hard Drive Organization
First Things First: The Historian Needs Organizing – based on comments (thanks to Michelle Goodrum), check the following
Tuesday’s Tips: Organizing Your Digital Files and related posts on same blog
Family History Genealogy Made Easy – episode 32 & 33  on hard drive organization
Organize Your Hard Drive – a YouTube video from Family Tree Magazine
Modifying Dropbox for Genealogists

Research Goals:

• Find evidence of frank demereck (demereckis) and spouse
  • Include death certificates, birth and marriage information

Organization Goal:

• Organize files and folders following myrt’s system including images
• Use tags and other metadata
• Develop system of tags (premade)
• Make sample folders for easy template-copy and rename
• Redo all legacy sources to rootsmagic

Backup Goal:

• Use Dropbox as suggested by myrt
• Use external drive to make copy of everything
• Keep external gedcom updated (doddemagen.com/tng)

DoddemaGen Goals:

• Blog at least 2x/wk regardless if use meme
• Blog as I research; tell obstacles, successes, etc
• Use blog and forum for correspondence (source documentation)
• Still debating the age-old question: how to handle galleries?  Flickr or just use WordPress plugins to display?
• Keep TNG updated with latest gedcom, images, documents

Personal goals:

• Daily prayer
• Daily scripture reading
• Start writing in my journal again
• Use RSS Reader to view current posts and/or articles (view nightly instead of first thing in the morning)