Questions – So Many.
What’s happening in your world? What projects are you concentrating on? Is it one or many? Where is your focus? Are you moving forward? Are you stuck? What’s holding you back? Do you use lists? Do you use Tasks? Do you record where or which websites you explore? If not, why not? Is your documentation in order? — Basically, what are you doing?
Written mid-April 2023.
As I write this, about four months have passed since I began working on my blog. By the time this is published, I would think another two months will have passed. As you can probably tell, I do quite a bit of “writing ahead”…
UPDATE – mid-May 2023.
A lot can change in a month…
I have become heavily involved with AI… Never thought it was possible. I have created different videos to promote my blog. There is so much that can be done to make our lives easier. What I have learnt – ChatGPT is NOT a fact finder – it creates words… It has been trained on Internet content since September 2021 so information is not up to date. This will change like most things. After you run things through ChatGPT, you do need to fact-check what it produces… If you don’t, then it’s Garbage In, Garbage Out!
My advice – use any AI products with caution AND do your homework!
Reflection.
To date, I have written…
| Blog # | Blog Name | Date Published |
| 1 | A New Year Dawns | 26-Jan |
| 2 | How & Why I Started (parts 1 & 2) | 1 Feb & 3 Feb |
| 3 | Adding Context | 7-Feb |
| 4 | Errors in My Tree | 10-Feb |
| 5 | Making Discoveries | 17-Feb |
| 6 | Emotional Being | 24-Feb |
| 7 | Possibilities | 3-Mar |
| 8 | Endings | 10-Mar |
| 9 | It’s A Mad World | 17-Mar |
| 10 | Secrets | 24-Mar |
| 11 | Who Am I or Is It Who I Am (Parts 1 & 2) | 31 Mar & 7 Apr |
| 12 | What’s Going On | 14-Apr |
| 13 | Filling in Gaps (Parts 1 & 2) | 21 Apr & 28 Apr |
| 14 | Names | 5-May |
| 15 | 1855 Scottish Death Certificate | 12-May |
| 16 | IGI | 19-May |
| 17 | Scottish Naming Conventions | 26-May |
| 18 | Census | 2-Jun |
| 19 | What’s In The Tree | 9-Jun |
| 20 | Is the Sky Blue | 16-Jun |
| 21 | What’s In The Box | 23-Jun |
| 22 | Where to Now | 30-Jun |
I have attempted to provide interesting links within each writing and hook them into family history. Some may enjoy the banter, others may not.
I ask the question – Where to Now… As you know within family history there seem to always be more questions than answers. For most of us, when we leave this world, we will not have answered all the questions…
Change.
My writings are about to change. You would have noticed, I have briefly written about some direct ancestors within my tree…
Throughout July you will be seeing my thoughts and memories about my ancestors who I have known == There are four parts under the title “Somebody I Use To Know” – My four grandparents… I am honest and blunt. You can imagine there will be more questions – You will be seeing wording at the beginning of these parts… usually stating facts – I own it and it’s my memories…
I am currently working on “The Arrivals”… All my ancestors who arrived in Australia.
More to come.
There will be more on Filling the Gaps – Part 3 and most likely Part 4. This information is arrived from the drops (hints) made in previous writings…
Now it’s – Onward – as YOU discover my memories of my grandparents.
Remember, It is MY journey and no one else’s…
Ancestor Family 