Genealogy Journal - Monday, 30 November 2020

 It's the end of November and I've journaled only 6 times this month.  Randy has been a very naughty, but busy, and lazy too, geneaholic.  It's the end of the month.  Anyone want to guess how many times I will journal in December?

*  Read email and blogs, added to the Best Of post, and noted that Amanuensis Monday -- 1739 Bond and Decree to Distribute the Real Estate of the Widow of John Plimpton (1649-1704) of Medfield, Massachusetts posted.

*  Got into Mondays With Myrt and contributed a bit.  Went to the grocery store and home by 11:30 a.m.  Wrote 50% Discount on Legacy Family Tree Webinars and Software.  Took my nap.

*  Had lunch, then added to the Best Of post, and wrote Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 29 November 2020.  Checked AncestryDNA matches too.

*  Checked Twitter and Facebook, then added to the Best Of post, and worked a bit in Web Hints in RootsMagic.

*  Went in at 5 p.m. to fix dinner, watched TV, read the paper, and did the dishes.

*  Online at 6:45 p.m. to read, then wrote a long blog post for Tuesday, and added to the Best Of post, set up a Zoom meeting, and checked Facebook, then wrote this post.  Genealogy today was 9.0 hours.

Here are the end-of-November statistics.  

Here are the numbers from my RootsMagic database as of 30 November (with increases in the numbers from 31 October in parentheses):

*  60,235 persons (+ 546)
*  24,522  families  (+ 224)
*  192,307 events  (+ 1694)
*  10,978 Alternate Names (+ 282)
*  14,679 places  (+ 102)
*  2,060 sources (+ 5)
*  129,210 citations (+ 1589)
*  1,552 Multi-media Items (+ 4)
*  3,210 Multimedia links (+ 2)
*  39,033 matched to FSFT (+ 673)

 I'm up to 67.19% (+0.24%) for citations/events and 214.51% (+0.70%) for citations/persons.

Genea-Musings statistics for November (compared to stats for October):

*  14,199 blog posts (+73)

*  106,506 page views (3550 per day, Blogger Stats, + 607)

*  >2,100 readers on Feedly (+??)

*  3,437 readers via email (Feedburner) (+ 3)

Genea-Journal - Tuesday, 24 November 2020

hmmm, two weeks ago was my last post.  Did you miss me?  I've been busy and now it doesn't seem that important to journal every day.  It is what it is - late November, almost turkey day, and we are still here doing pretty much the same things day after day.  

*  Read email and blogs, added to the Best Of post, and noted that Review: "Genealogy at a Glance: War of 1812 Research - Updated Edition," by Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL posted.  Checked AncestryDNA.

*  Packed and sealed and took my forever box to FedEx - hope to get it back by New Years.

*  Downloaded MyHeritageDNA spreadsheets hoping to get inspiration to do a DNA matches list.  Had lunch.

*  Wrote Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 24 November 2020 and found one of the Italian lines in a tree and added two families.  Fun!!

*  Checked Facebook and Twitter, then added to the Best Of post, and worked more in RootsMagic WebHints.  

*  Went in at 5 p.m. for dinner, watched TV, read the paper, washed dishes, finished the laundry.  

*  Online at 6:30 p.m. to read, talked to Lori on the phone, wrote the Wordless post, and resolved 215 Ancestry Hints adding content and sources to RootsMagic. 

*  Added to the Best Of post, checked Facebook, answered email, and wrote this post.  Genealogy today was 11.0 hours.

Genealogy Journal - Tuesday, 10 November 2020

 Will wonders never cease?  Or will ceasars never wonder?  Two days in a row on the RJS show!  A sunny day but cool - high of about 75.  but I got about 20 minutes of sun walking around downtown Chula Vista.

*  Read email and blogs, added to the Best Of post, and noted that Review: "Genealogy at a Glance: Swedish Genealogy Research," by Robert Johnson, JD, CG posted.  Checked the AncestryDNA matches - not many new ones.

*  We left at 9:45 a.m. and Linda had a dental appointment.  Home by 11:15.  I took my nap.  

*  Had lunch, added to the Best Of post, and wrote Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 10 November 2020.  Answered email and did some Seaver research.

*  Checked Twitter and Facebook, added to the Best Of post, and did some random WebHint work.

*  Went in at 4:45 p.m. to fix dinner, watch TV, read the paper, and wash dishes.

*  Online at 6 p.m. to read, colorized some old photos, wrote the Wordless post, and resolved 316 Ancestry Hints, adding content and sources for some of them to RootsMagic.

*  Added to the Best Of post, checked email, checked Facebook, and wrote this post.  Genealogy today was 9.0 hours.

Genealogy Journal - Monday, 9 November 2020

 I always have good intentions, but I'm not succeeding in blogging here every night.  Frustrated by everything, and not sleeping well, so need a nap, which reduces my work time.  Rained over the weekend so now the weeds will start growing again.

*  Read email and blogs, added to the Best Of post, and noted that Amanuensis Monday -- 1685 Bond and Order to Administer the Estate of George Barbur (1617-1685) of Medfield, Massachusetts posted.  

*  Got into Mondays With Myrt and shared a bit about software and mining Ancestry hints.  Went to the grocery store.  Home by 11:40 a.m. and got the laundry started.

*  Took my nap, had lunch, and online at 12:45 to add to the Best Of post, then wrote Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 8 November 2020.  Checked Facebook and Twitter.

*  Answered email and set up CVGS Zoom meetings.  Went in at 4:30 p.m. to fix dinner, watch TV news, read the paper, and wash dishes.  Finished the laundry.  

*  Online at 6:30 p.m. to read, add to the Best Of post, resolve 172 Ancestry Hints and check Facebook.  Wrote this post.  Genealogy today was 9.0 hours.

Genealogy Journal - Wednesday, 4 November 2020

 The election returns are dribbling in - nothing decided yet...  Received my birthday present today - See's candy from Tami.  I think my daughters are trying to fatten me up for the winter.  I don't need more fattening, but...See's!

*  Read email and blogs, added to the Best Of post, and noted that Randy and His Great-Grandfather in 1944 -- Post 642 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday posted.  Wrote Mining the Newspapers.com Obituary Index Record Hints on Ancestry and set it for later.

*  Took my nap.  Had lunch, and online at Zoom for the CVGS Board meeting at 11:50.  Over by 12:45.

*  Worked on the GSMD application summary.  I keep IDing documents i need to get.

*  Checked Twitter and Facebook, and added to the Best Of post.  Worked on WebHints.  Checked the DNA match numbers.  

*  Went in at 5 p.m. to fix dinner, watch TV, read the paper, put out the trash and wash dishes.  

*  Online at 6:45 p.m. to read, add to the Best Of post, write the Treasure Chest post, and resolved 276 Ancestry Hints adding content and sources.  Checked Facebook and wrote this post.  Genealogy today was 10./0 hours.

Genealogy Journal - Monday, 2 November 2020

 Today was the 129th birth anniversary of my grandfather - Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976).  I sure wish I had talked to him more about his life stories.  

*  Read email and blogs, added to the Best Of post, and got into Mondays with Myrt at 8:45.  didn't say much.  

*  Went to the grocery store at 10:45 a.m. and home by 11:30.  Took my nap.

*  Had lunch, then noted that the Amanuensis Monday post had not posted, so I activated it from Draft - Amanuensis Monday -- 1685 Inventory of George Barbur (1617-1685) of Medfield, Massachusetts.  Need to check that occasionally.  Wrote Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 1 November 2020.

*  Checked AncestryDNA matches - no new matches since Saturday.  Checked Twitter and Facebook, and added to the Best Of post.  Worked on WebHints adding content and sources to RootsMagic.  

*  Went in at 5 p.m. to fix dinner, watch TV, read the paper, water the front plants, wash dishes, and walk the block.

*  Online at 6:30 p.m. to read, answer email, wrote a Tuesday post, added two lines to RootsMagic for ThruLines,  Checked Facebook, added to the Best Of post, and wrote this post.  Genealogy today was 8.5 hours.