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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Ancestor Score For 2022

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!!   Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and I hope more of you do than participated in the last several SNGF challenges), is to: 1)  Determine how complete your genealogy research is.  For background, read Crista Cowan 's post  Family History All Done? What’s Your Number?  and Kris Stewart's   What Is Your Genealogy "Score?"    For comparison purposes, keep the list to 10 generations with you as the first person.   2)  Create a table similar to Crista's second table, and fill it in however you can (you could create an Ahnentafel (Ancestor Name) list and count the number in each generation, or use some other method).  Tell us how you calculated the numbers. 3)  Show us your table, and calculate your "Ancestral Score" - what is your percentage of known names to possible names (1,023 for 10 generations). 4) ...

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun- Your 2022 Plans/Goals/Resolutions for Your Genealogy Research

  Calling all Genea-Musings fans It's  Saturday Night  again -  time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!): 1)  It's the New Year, and many readers and bloggers have already made resolutions, or goals, or plans for one or more tasks or projects.  Or they haven't yet, but could, or should. 2)  For this SNGF, please tell us what plans you've made, or what goals you've stated, or what resolutions you've averred for 2021.  Writing them down may help you achieve them.  Do one or more as you wish. 3)  Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post so readers can find your resolutions/goals/plans.   #1  Write -    I would like to write about my ancestral stories on my blog....