Accounting for February - the To Do List

All things considered, I think February was a successful month even though I didn't complete everything I intended to do. I'll post March's to do list in a day or two.

Below are my accomplishments (or not) for the month:

Post my to do list at the beginning of the month and my successes (or lack thereof) at the end of the month

• High Hopes for February: To Do List -- Motivation Monday
• Accounting for February - the To Do List
  

Watch one RootsMagic webinar and put what I learn to use (from January)
undone - for the second month in a row

Transcribe at least one page of Ellis Bickerstaff's Civil War Pension File (carried over from January). In total I scanned and transcribed 7 documents, combined into 2 posts.

• Claim for Disability Pension - Civil War Pension File
• Invalid Pension: $8.00/month - Civil War Pension File
  

Rename and organize at least one batch of photographs (20-50 images scanned on the same date)

• Feb. 29 - barely done in time to attribute to this month
  

Participate in Abundant Genealogy at least two weeks in the month

• Life Experiences Week 5: Life Experiences - Abundant Genealogy Week 5
• Heirlooms Week 6: Family Heirlooms - Abundant Genealogy Week 6
• Historical Documents Week 7: Historical Documents - Abundant Genealogy Week 7
• Genealogy Collections/Libraries Week 8: Genealogy Collections at Local Libraries - Abundant Genealogy Week 8
  

Share one Tuesday's Tip

• Tuesday, Feb. 7: The 50 Questions in the 1940 Census - Tuesday's Tip
• Tuesday, Feb. 21: Pennsylvania Certificates Online - Tuesday's Tip

Publish one Surname Saturday post. This will be an irregularly updated list of surnames and surname variations

• posted on Feb. 18 - Surname Variations included Armitage and Bickerstaff

Continue my educational efforts

• watched RootsTech live on Thursday, February 2, through Saturday, Feb. 4
• listened to DearMyrtle's RootsTech 2012 Review on Monday evening, Feb. 6
• read & posted on Feb. 20-21: The Genealogical Proof Standard at the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) website
  

Also completed

• Feb 7: signed on with Google Webmaster Central as suggested by a RootsTech presenter. Doing this enables me to see traffic analysis, search terms, etc. To do this I had to add an html tag in the design code of my blog to verify ownership (which was really scary for a non-techie like me!).
  
• Feb 14: in newly opened Pennsylvania Death Certificate Index I searched for, found, and ordered death certificates for Tressa Froman Doyle, and Fredrick K. Gerner; on Feb. 18, I found and ordered certificates for Catherine Saylor Froman, Lucille Hepler, and Edward Gerner
• Feb. 17: installed RootsMagic onto a flash drive
• Feb. 18: went to OHS, found 2 newspaper articles about Abel & Ann Armitage filing suit against the city of Steubenville in court of common pleas, Abel Armitage - Alive Another Year
  
• Feb. 18: searched for and found an obituary for Anna Reeves Armitage as a Random Act of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK)
  
• Feb. 22: found and subscribed to Michael Hait's blog, Planting the Seeds
  
• Feb. 22: read article Censuses - Often-Overlooked Basics by Elizabeth Shown Mills at Board for Certification of Genealogists Skillbuilders.
  
• Feb. 22: looked for Eliza Hartley Armitage at Rootsweb BMD. Found 2 possible candidates.
• Feb. 26: Became a 1940 U.S. Census Ambassador. Posts include 1940 U. S. Census Ambassador and If You Know Where They Lived in 1940....
• Feb. 27: wrote letter to Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Jefferson County, Ohio, to request information about obtaining the file of a court case
• Feb. 28: read Citing Your Sources by Elizabeth Shown Mills at BCG Skillbuilders.
  

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