2012 Genealympics - Events 7-10 and Final Medal Count

The 2012 Genealympics are coming to a close today. In this post, I’ll report on my final events and recap my medal count! Rather than re-post the event descriptions, I just included a link to the blog post in which it was described.

Event 7: Genealogy Book Collection 

From the list of 15 books Randy posted for this challenge, I have the following:

• Professional Genealogy, edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills
• Evidence! Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills (print and PDF editions)
• The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, any edition
• Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, by Val Greenwood
• BCG Genealogical Standards Manual

BRONZE MEDAL

Event 8: Go Back and Cite Your Sources! 

For some time, I’ve been using different techniques to go back and find events that have no source citations. For this challenge, I ran a report in my genealogy software to show all direct-line ancestors that were missing source citations for any one of the following facts: name, birth, death, or marriage.

Using that report, I was able to write proper source citations for 134 events!

WOO HOO! PLATINUM MEDAL!

Event 9: Write, Write, Write!

I completed two parts of this challenge:

• Prepare several posts in draft mode (if possible with your blog platform) and pre-publish.
• Write a brief biographical sketch on one of your ancestors.

SILVER MEDAL!

Event 10: Reach Out & Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness!

I completed three areas of this challenge:

• Comment on a new (to you) genea-blog.
• Participate in an indexing project.
• Join a genealogical, historical, heritage or lineage society.

GOLD MEDAL!

And my final MEDAL COUNT

for the 2012 GENEALYMPICS!

Bronze – 2

Silver – 4

Gold – 3

Platinum – 1

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