Heartland Genealogy: Measuring 2018 Goals

Monday, January 1, 2018

Measuring 2018 Goals

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)