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Over the last few months, I have experienced so many changes in my personal life.  Due to these changes, I’ve decided to reevaluate my genealogical goals.

Do I want to be a professional genealogist?  Do I go for accreditation?  How will I balance being a professional genealogist with my dream of being a teacher?  Do I want to write?  Blog?  Lecture?  Research?  A bit of everything?

With a lot of careful consideration and personal reflection, I have decided that I will focus on three things:

  1. Expand my genealogical knowledge as much as possible
  2. Share my genealogical knowledge with others
  3. Have as much fun as possible

As part of expanding my genealogical knowledge – I will continue reading as many genealogy blogs and genealogy related books as I can get my hands on.  I have signed up for the waiting list for the ProGen study group.  You can expect me at every conference I can afford to get to.

Speaking of conferences, one of the ways I want to share my genealogical knowledge is by speaking/lecturing on genealogy topics.  I already spoke last Sunday at the Immigrant Genealogy Society in Burbank, CA and on Saturday I will be speaking at the Escondido Library for the Escondido Genealogy Society.

But just because I will be speaking, doesn’t mean that I will stop writing this blog.  Have no fear – this blog is going to be here for a long time.  I love this blog like it is my baby and view it as a way to watch my progress as I grow as a genealogist.

But my writing will not stop at my blog – I will be sending articles to genealogy magazines in hopes of them being published.  However, I doubt that I will be writing for academic-style genealogy journals because it is simply not my style (nothing against academic journals – I just don’t want to write like that).

These are my genealogy goals and while they may not all come true, you will definitely see me trying as hard as I can to make these dreams a reality.

What are your genealogy dreams/goals?

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