During the last few years of my career in teaching, I was required to write SMART Goals. Even though I did not excel at writing those goals, I think about the acronym (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) when considering genealogy goals. Although I haven’t written my 2018 genealogy goals in true SMART goal fashion, I have broken a broad goal of ‘researching my family history’ into smaller more specific tasks. With these smaller goals, I will be able to check them off within the next year (hopefully).
Although I’m always working on my broad ‘research my family history goal’, I hope to be better at being able to ‘measure’ my progress in 2018. Thus, I need to establish my ‘baseline’ or beginning stats for 2018.
RootsMagic
- 11,269 People
- 3,744 Families
- 29,407 Events
- 3,215 Sources
- 39,752 Citations
Ancestry
- 11,257 People
- 2,095 Photos
- 99 Stories
- 1,753 Records
- 1,105 People with Hints
- 8,151 Total Hints
- 6,541 Record Hints
- 662 Photo Hints
- 79 Story Hints
Exhibits Folder
- 62.8 GB
- 21,757 Files
- 844 Folders
Ancestry Tree Media Folder
- 234 Files
DNA – Ancestry
- 98 Shared Matches (current unresolved issue with mom’s side of tree and matches)
- 404 Starred Matches
- 1000+ 4th cousins or closer
- 906 Pages of matches
- 17 Circles (but only 16 listed when viewing all)
- James Barr Ralston
- Nancy Jane McCormick
- Richard Foster
- Rachel Browning
- David Franklin Ralston
- Jason Hammond
- Rachel Hale
- Horatio Hammond
- William G. Harding
- Albert Hutchinson
- Richmond Fisk Hammond
- Julia Harding
- William Harding
- Dr. Edward Ostrander
- Zebulon Foster
- Caroline Ostrander
Blog Entries
- Heartland Genealogy – Developing Skills (Blogger) – 51 published posts
- Heartland Genealogy – Family Tales (WordPress) – 92 published posts