The Second 30 X 30

I was so excited after I finished my first round of 

30 Minutes X 30 Days I did a second round.

I started the next day after I finished the first round on November 16th. I finished on  December 20th, just in time for a break at Christmas. I did have 5 Oops I Missed a Day. 

When I missed a day I added on to the end. I didn't want to do less than 30 Days. 

I also accomplished some different tasks in this challenge.  I did some Transcription of some notes my daughter took when she interviewed her grandfather, my Father in Law. That was a challenge reading her handwriting. Basically it is just bullet points and now I have to fill in the story and more details but I will have to have my husband's cousins and sister help me with since they are more familiar with the details.

Here is a picture of her notes. 

I also worked on fixing some problems in my genealogy software. Double checking on f the problem OK or if it was really a problem. So I had to double check records. I just didn't want to clear the list I wanted to make sure I had accurate information. I still have a lot of pages on the problem list to fix. 

I did work on organizing folders on other lines. 

 I will be doing it again, I am just going to take a little break and send some times sorting through too many years of pictures to count and get rid of duplicates and put them into decade sections. To begin scanning them. I will scrapbook some but not all. Always some thing to do. 

My Father-in-Law on his wedding day in 1947, William Francis Bowden Jr, and Martha Putz. 

30 Minutes 30 Days Challenge Part 2

So as I was saying yesterday the challenge has been very helpful to me and I hope this inspires someone else. 

I also wanted to share with you some of things I did during my challenge. I started to set a timer, to let me know when to stop. That doesn't mean I stopped when it went off, but it gave me permission to stop and do something else. Like scrapbooking! Or pick up kids from school. Or just to move on. 

After about five days into the challenge I decided I needed a spreadsheet of what I had accomplished so I could see some of my progress. So, I made and excel spreadsheet.

Here are some of the things I did in the first 18 days.

 I also counted such things as attending a Genealogy Conference, listening to a webinar, because after all I need to keep learning as well as doing. I also counted tasks like adding sources to my family tree software. I use Legacy. One day I was looking at the Index in Legacy and noticed duplicates on half my people. So I had to ask on the user group how to merge duplicates and I worked on that one day. That was longer than 30 minutes. I think I know how I created that mess. I did a sync with Legacy and Family Search and I didn't finish the comparison between each person and it added everyone in as a new person. 

Live and Learn.

I did not count any indexing I did since that doesn't affect my genealogy work.

Sometimes I did searchers for a particular document, and I would record the results in my Research Log. In this case it is a negative results. I still can't find a marriage record for my Great Grandfather Joseph Hartmann b1845. 

Above are days 19 to 30.

I tried to avoid going down rabbit holes after Bright Shiny Objects but that was hard to do. So I just saved what I found. 

I have found because of all this renaming of files that I am now saving new things with the new naming convention. That is going to make things so much easier. 

Of course as I made changes and found things to check on I needed a To Do List and I made one of those. 

Nothing hard, just a name and an item that needs to be completed, and one of those is even done! I feel so accomplished. 

Well Good Luck

On to my next 30 days!