The Importance of Setting yourself Genealogy Goals

[Erato]

I only have one goal:  to have fun on the chase.

[coombs]

I very much doubt DNA matches can extend beyond say 200 years, maybe one day when DNA advances.

[brigidmac]

Coombs may I disagree ,
my mother and I have DNA links to people from 1850 ...if more people built their trees back to 1820 I'm sure we would find some matches

The DNA experts may not have used my heritage or ancest but they had the tools to match king Richard  third DNA to modern day descendants 400+ years

[chiddicks]

I only have one goal:  to have fun on the chase.

The most important bit is to have fun, it’s a hobby after all

[chiddicks]

I very much doubt DNA matches can extend beyond say 200 years, maybe one day when DNA advances.

I definitely have DNA matches around 1780’s - 1820’s as well, and that’s just Autosomal. If like I have, you take a Y DNA test that will take your paternal line back even further than that

[coombs]

Coombs may I disagree ,
my mother and I have DNA links to people from 1850 ...if more people built their trees back to 1820 I'm sure we would find some matches

The DNA experts may not have used my heritage or ancest but they had the tools to match king Richard  third DNA to modern day descendants 400+ years

Sorry I meant just autosomal DNA, unless it has been carried back to the 1700s by now.

Y DNA and mtDNA has come on in leaps and bounds.

[chiddicks]

I'm still plugging away and plodding along with my genealogy goals for 2021, some of course have been sadly abandoned due to covid, but I am still hoping one day we can start to travel again!

https://chiddicksfamilytree.com/2021/07/11/my-half-yearly-report-2021/

[Guy Etchells]

My half yearly report, so how did I do???


​​​​​​​https://chiddicksfamilytree.com/2020/06/28/my-half-yearly-report-how-did-i-do/

Sorry Paul but why is it important to set goals?
Genealogy or family history is recording the past and future history of my & associated families, I am not try to pass a test or meet a magazine deadline but to record the events of my living family and those who have past and as such is a way of life!
Cheers
Guy

[chiddicks]

Hi Guy, we all work in different ways with regards to research and there is no problem at all with that. Around 4 or 5 years ago I completely lost focus on what I was researching, I ended up aimlessly searching with no structure and no goal and basically wasted 6 months of potential research time. I vowed never to do that again, hence why I set myself targets and goals, I work better that way, but of course, that's not for everyone.

This helps me to maintain focus on what I want to achieve. As an example, my oldest brick wall is to try and trace the birth location of my 4 x great grandfather Samuel Chiddicks born appx 1761, but I have no idea where. One of my targets is to strip all those records pertaining to him back to basics and go over them all completely again. By having that as a goal it helps to act as a constant reminder of what I need to do and why.

Like I say, goals, targets or whatever you want to call them will not work for everyone and I am a firm believer that if you have a system and it works for you then stick to it.