My Trails into the Past

Before setting goals for this coming year, let’s look to see how well I had accomplished of my goals for 2021. 2021 Goals I had six goals. I only accomplished one and a third of them. I definitely had too many goals and will make fewer goals for 2022. Continue teaching two classes per quarter at the adult school, Winter, Spring and Fall. Completed & ongoing. Create 3 new talks for genealogy societies. Completed one on farming Write 1 new KDP of one of my mother’s southern families. Not done Write at least 2 articles for journals Not done Work on processing the photo collection Not done Create an heirloom book. Not done In 2021, I started a new business venture called Applied Genealogy Institute with two partners, Jill and Mary. This took up quite a lot of time as we worked on creating the business. Instead of creating new talks for societies, I created content for twelve hours of instruction on using land records in genealogy research. Also in my 2021 goals post...

This is my second year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. What does the future hold for us? Some day I will be gone, but I hope that before I die, I have finished several family history books to pass down to family. I certainly do not want all of my research work go to waste. I have no one at the moment who is interested in taking it on. I can hope my daughters find someone special in their lives and maybe have children. Maybe one of the grandchildren might become interested in preserving our family history. My husband’s aunt has begun the process of donating all of the Nilsen family material to the California State Archives and I have integrated my research within what she had. I already wrote a three-generation story about the forefathers who came t...