Review of 2017

The first day of the year.... Our thoughts turn to reviewing the last year and planning for next year.

Genealogy wise I try to separate into 3 sections: personal, professional and volunteer. I admit I never put concrete goals down (on paper or computer) this year. Seriously I have a spreadsheet titled 2017 genealogy goals but it has these three titles on it and that's it. Blank! But I still made some progress.

Personal:
1. I made progress on my DAR application. I got accepted into a chapter pending approval of my application. I filled out an application and got one more record. So I need to review what else I need to submit my application.
2. Thanks to a new genealogy friend, I made progress on my Danish line.
3. Thanks to two of my cousins for doing a DNA test which may have been helpful or at least interesting.

Professional:
1. Mainly I spent quite a bit of time this fall contacting churches for digitization of their records and driving there for Arkiv Digital. This was a big project but mostly temporary  although there is a little left to do.
2. I applied for a scholarship for a genealogy training (SLIG, GRIP or DC). My first time applying so wish me luck.
3. I attended several of my APG meetings (mostly virtually), as well as a few genealogy Twitter chats (#genchat). I attended one conference (see below).
3. Also I had several clients this year and think I was successful in helping them. Also I  helped track down my boss's classmate so they could visit when heading that way, although maybe that was volunteer. Lol

Volunteer:
1. I added a ton of photos and a good number of memorials on Findagrave, specifically over 2300 gravestone photos and over 500 memorials. That brings my totals to 9000 memorials and 16,830 photos.
2. I coordinated a large conference for NSGS with D. Joshua Taylor as featured speaker. It was a successful conference with our largest attendance ever, even if we didn't quite make a profit on it.
3. I updated the local cemetery directory, and tried to keep the county GenWeb site maintained.
4. I also made progress indexing marriages.

That's all I can think of for now. Hopefully 2018 is another productive genealogy year.