I have been lax on updating this site, but I HAVE been doing my research, as every good genealogist should. 😉
I’ve been doing a little work on Wikitree, at least 100 contributions each month to stay in the 100 Club. Sometimes more, sometimes not, but slowly driving my total number of contributions higher. I have changed how much work I do (mostly less) for several projects I’m a member of. The formality of the site and elements of the personnel structure are beginning to get to me enough that it’s simply not as much fun as it used to be.
Wikitree has had a few changes lately that have given me some things I can put online. One is a summary of the top 10 surnames I’ve worked on the past several years. Obviously, Murray leads the field most years site-wide working for the Clan. I will post the numbers soon. The other project I’ve worked with on Wikitree is a collection of famous ancestors in various categories. They are very detailed and will take a little more time to format and post.
I’ve also been working on my personal database (up to nearly 26,000 ancestors now), primarily adding sources from Ancestry.com, along with some from MyHeritage.com. I get update hints from both sites during a typical month and had accumulated them for at least a year, if not longer.
I am now caught up on Ancestry and will soon start to work religiously on MyHeritage. I still have work to do with American Ancestors, too, especially for my Puritan Great Migration ancestors, but that’s a while off, yet.
Clan Murray was able to hold a last-minute Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Stone Mountain, Georgia, outside of Atlanta, last Fall. Remember it was supposed to be in Denver in 2020, but was canceled due to Covid concerns and moved to 2021. When it was canceled again in 2021, it was picked up by Stone Mountain. Now we are planning again for 2022 in Denver.
Not much to show in the way of photos and such, since I “worked” the booth as I always do in Colorado. I have fun talking with people and trying to get them interested in their heritage. Don’t have much time left for socializing during the Festival then. One thing that did make me feel good, though, is hearing the vast majority of contacts to the Clan from the website were related to genealogy.
It may not sound like it, but I’ve backed away from genealogy a bit and have done more work with the gun club, recently re-upping for another year as Secretary and Newsletter Editor. I’ve done a lot of lead bullet casting, learned how to powder-coat them for better lubrication, followed by batches and batches of reloading. With what I’ve already loaded, can still load, and already have on-hand, we’re ready for almost anything!
