On 15 December 2014, Thomas MacEntee posted on his blog GeneaBloggers: Announcing the Genealogy Do-Over
Starting January 2nd, I’m setting my 20+ years of genealogy research aside and starting over. From scratch.
Seriously. How many times have you thought about doing the same thing? Did you start your research the same way I did, by just collecting names, grabbing stuff from other online trees, or pasting text into your genealogy software? Lately, has the prospect of going back and citing sources and proving facts and evidence brought you down and ruined your genealogy buzz? Do you throw up your hands and say, “I give up!” only to return to the same review and edit process days or weeks later?
If you’re like me, you need a genealogy makeover. Better yet, a Genealogy Do-Over. That’s what I’m calling this journey upon which I’m embarking in 2015. And I want you to come along.
For thirteen weeks, Thomas will be posting and blogging about the week's tasks and his progress.
On 22 December 2014, Thomas posted his Genealogy Do-Over: Schedule of Topics.
For those wanting to track the progress of bloggers participating in the Do-Over, there is a bag at Bag the Web.
Thomas has a Facebook group for people who want to follow along in a group setting. I thought it might be fun to follow along Stack Exchange style, reviving our Weekly Chats and, where appropriate, with Weekly Topic Challenges. After Thomas' Do-Over is complete, we could revisit some of the Weekly Chat Topics from the past. Our newest members won't have had the opportunity to chat about them, and for the older hands, if we revisit chat topics from more than a year ago, we can see what progress we've had over the year.
Anyone else game for a Do-Over?
- Weekly genealogy chat topics - now a week long event!
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy Do-Over Week 1: 2-8 January 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy Do-Over Week 2: 9-15 January 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy-Do Over Week 3: 16-22 January 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy-Do Over Week 4: 23-29 January 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy-Do Over Week 5: 30 January 2015 - 5 February 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy-Do Over Week 6: 6-12 February 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy Do-Over – Week 7: 13-19 February 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy Do-Over – Week 8: 20-26 February 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy Do-Over – Week 9: 27 February – 5 March 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy Do-Over – Week 10: 6 - 12 March 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy Do-Over – Week 11: 13 - 19 March 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy Do-Over – Week 12: 20 -26 March 2015
- Weekly Chat | Genealogy Do-Over -- Week 13 – 27 March – 2 April 2015