Family Tree Frog

  Alex and her bestie Loani showing off the quilt made for Caspar's birthday 1. I was happy to go back to ... after a Covid absence Face-to-face conferences, meetings, and workshops. 2. In 2022 I was particularly proud of writing ... as many of my 52Ancestorsin52week blog posts as I could. 36 in total. 3. A new software package or web application I embraced was ... I kept going with PowerPoint in terms of presentations and was very brave and did a presentation at a SAG hangout in March.  I had lots of egg on my face in terms of working out the sound but the SAG convenors were just lovely and very encouraging.  Onwards and upwards.   I also set up a Mastodon account for both myself and QFHS late in the year.   I played with the MyHeritage DeepStory tool and the AI Time Machine™.   (see photos above) I never knew my maternal grandmother as she died before I was born.  Many people find DeepStory a bit creepy but I found that it engaged my a...

  Have you set New Year's Resolutions for Family History? Did you watch Thomas MacEntee's great talk on the MyHeritage Facebook page? He suggested keeping it real, which I think is a brilliant suggestion.  We are all guilty of setting goals that are too big.  Keep them bite-size.   What will help us get there?  A tree with lots of branches of course and good foundations or roots ! Do you have a budget?  Do you have a strategy?  Are you measuring your results?  If not, how will you know you are making progress?   I have been so inspired by the progress of other genealogists with their scanning, filing, writing and so on. Shauna Hicks  and Jennifer Jones spring to mind. Budget I need to focus on the areas that Thomas suggested: Organization Workflow Information Methodology Education and Legacy I think all of us focus on that last area in a big way.  We want to leave a lasting legacy but are overwhelmed by how much there is to do and ...