Hello 2020 – New Year, Fresh Start

Happy New Year! It’s now 2020 and we are beginning a new decade!  2019 was a great year for me with regard to my family history and genealogy activities and I wanted to share a brief recap. Some of my highlights include:

• Presenting for the Tennessee State Library & Archives, the Maury County Genealogical Society, and Andrew Jackson’s The Hermitage
• Becoming President of my local Nashville, TN chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society
• Being a featured guest on a podcast for the Nashville Retrospect newspaper
• Meeting the leadership team of BillionGraves.com and helping to photograph headstones at a local African American historic cemetery
• Implementing a robust online database for my historical newspaper indexes
• Having an opportunity to donate some of my research work to the Tennessee State Library & Archives
• Starting a newspaper abstracts book I plan to publish within the next few years
• Taking an amazing vacation up to Wisconsin to visit Koonce friends whom I’ve come to know through my Koonce Surname Genealogy Project
• Implementing the Sunday Basket system to help keep me on target with projects, including my genealogy one
• Making substantial progress in my digital photo organization and implementing a complete memory-keeping solution via Forever.com
• Making progress on organizing my physical photo organization
• Finishing my family’s 2018 yearbook as it will be a heritage document for my descendants years from now
• Being featured in an upcoming video on researching African American history in partnership with the Fort Negley Descendants Project
• Solidifying my workflow for documenting my family history research

Some of those I haven’t posted about so one of my genealogy goals for 2020 is to post more frequently and better document my genealogy adventures – I must get busy.
2020 is going to be a great start to the next decade!

Note: This blog post is published as my Week 1 contribution for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blogging prompt series. Amy’s prompts can help inspire your family history and genealogy research and it doesn’t even need to be in a blog format! Learn more at https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/.