Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Genealogy Journal - Wednesday, 31 March 2021

 Another new record - 59 days without journaling.  Once you stop, it's hard to get back to it.  Does anybody care?

Today was a warm day here in Chula Vista - 88F was the official high, but a bit warmer here.  I thought about getting the fan back in my cave since it was over 80F all day.

Read email and blogs, noted that A 4-Generation Carringer Family Picture -- Post 663 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday posted and wrote Recent MyHeritage News.

*  Noted news AncestryDNA matches and added one more ThruLine to RootsMagic, then worked on adding more descendant families of my 5th great-grandparents.  

*  Had lunch, added to the Best Of post, and opened the Zoom room for the CVGS meeting.  Debby Anderson did her talk on her great-grandmother's letters to her sister and it was fascinating - she also researched names, places, events and terms.  We had 40 attendees.  Afterward, I took a nap.

*  Added to the Best Of post, checked Twitter and Facebook, answered email, did some checking on several ancestors, put out the trash cans, then went in and fixed dinner.

*  Online at 6:30 p.m. to read, then wrote the Treasure Chest post, took a short walk, and resolved 225 Ancestry Hints adding content and sources to RootsMagic.  Added to the Best Of post and checked Facebook again.  Wrote this post.  Genealogy today was 10.0 hours.

Here are the end-of-March statistics.  

Here are the numbers from my RootsMagic database as of 31 March (with increases in the numbers from 31 January in parentheses):

*  62,524 (+ 1175)
*  25,516 families  (+ 517)
*  198,855  events  (+ 3298)

*  12,026 Alternate Names (+ 508)
*  15,719 places  (+ 649)
*  2,126 sources (+ 41)
*  135,770 citations (+ 3151)
*  1,558 Multi-media Items (+ 3)
*  3,212 Multimedia links (+ 1)
*  41,358 matched to FSFT (+ 1108)


 I'm up to 68.28% (+0.46%) for citations/events and 217,15% (+0.98%) for citations/persons.

Genea-Musings statistics for March (compared to stats for January
):

*  14,509 blog posts (+159)


*  122,842 page views (4,095 per day, Blogger Stats, - 868)

*  >2,100 readers on Feedly (+??)

*  3,456
readers via email (Feedburner) (+ 22)


Sunday, January 31, 2021

Genealogy Journal - Sunday, 31 January 2021

 It's probably a record for fewest posts in a month - this is TWO.  But no one is complaining.  Yet.  Life is busy and I'd rather read a book watching TV instead of writing a blog post, even though the rest of my day is the same as it has been for a year now.  Boring.  But I get a lot of data entry and searching done.

*  Read email and blogs, noted that Genealogical Forum of Oregon Hosting a FREE Virtual Open House From 27 March to 3 April 2021 posted.

*  Worked on the Amanuensis Monday post and set it for Monday.  Had to search for one to transcribe.  I need to plan ahead better.

*  Answer4ed email, and went in at noon to have lunch and watch the golf tournament.  Boring...got a short recliner nap.  Read the paper too.

*  Online at 3:30 p.m. to note that Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 24 to 30 January 2021 posted.  Checked the AncestryDNA numbers.  Added to the new Best Of post.

*  Went in at 4:45 p.m. to fix dinner - yum - spaghetti - and watch TV news.

*  Online at 6:30 p.m. to answer email, then resolved 210 Ancestry Hints adding content to the RootsMagic tree.  Then TreeShared 148 profiles to the Ancestry Member Tree. 

*  Checked blogs and email, then checked Facebook, and wrote this post.  Genealogy today was only 6.5 hours.

Here are the end-of-January statistics.  

Here are the numbers from my RootsMagic database as of 31 January (with increases in the numbers from 31 December in parentheses):

*  61,349 persons (+ 682)
*  24,999 families  (+ 226)
*  195,557 events  (+ 1723)

*  11,518 Alternate Names (+ 263)
*  15,070 places  (+ 176)
*  2,085 sources (+ 5)
*  132,619 citations (+ 1662)
*  1,555 Multi-media Items (+ 0)
*  3,211 Multimedia links (- 1)
*  40,250 matched to FSFT (+ 612


 I'm up to 67.82% (+0.26%) for citations/events and 216.17% (+0.67%) for citations/persons.

Genea-Musings statistics for January (compared to stats for December
):

*  14,350 blog posts (+70)


*  153,853 page views (4963 per day, Blogger Stats, + 1045)

*  >2,100 readers on Feedly (+??)

*  3,434 
readers via email (Feedburner) (+ 1)


Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Genealogy Journal - Tuesday, 12 January 2021

 Finally remembered to post a journal...first one in 2021.  Has anyone noticed?

*  Read email and blogs, added to the Best Of post, and noted that Exploring the New "Ancestor Discovery Pages" on FamilySearch posted.

*  Worked on AncestryDNA matches for awhile.  Answered email from Bob about Kemp matches - he may have a solution for the brick wall Kemp.  Very good work!

*  Added to the Best Of post, and had lunch.  Wrote Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 12 January 2021.

*  Checked and the FOREVER box with 29 home movies digitized was on the doorstep.  Got the files installed and watched about 15 of them.  Some priceless moments - I will try to get still shots of some of them (nobody stays still in these movies!  Posted on Facebook about the movies and blog posts.

*  Went in at 4:30 p.m. to start the meat in the oven.  We ate, watched TV news, and washed dishes.

*  Online at 6:30 p.m. to read, write the Wednesday morning post, and resolved 350 Ancestry Hints in RootsMagic, adding content and sources.  Checked Facebook, added to the Best Of post, and answered email.  Genealogy today was 11.0 hours.