{"id":9760,"date":"2020-02-23T05:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2020-02-23T05:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T05:46:14","slug":"setting-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9760","title":{"rendered":"Setting Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No one lives forever and at some point one needs to decide what the &#8220;goals&#8221; &#8216;of their genealogy research are. There are no general right or wrong answers. There are just answers for one individual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m not really interested in tracing all the descendants of any of my umpteenth great-grandparents. Those are fine goals, but they simply are not what interests me. I realize that analyzing DNA results is easier when one has traced as many descendants of their ancestors as possible. For most of my 5th great-grandparents and closer, I have their descendants reasonably traced to around 1900&#8211;which is usually close enough to facilitate working with DNA matches and completing later generations when necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d rather learn more and completely establish information on the ancestors and ancestral families of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>John George (1798-1871) and Sophia Elizabeth (Derle) (1807-1877) Trautvetter of Wohlmuthausen, Thuringen, Germany, and Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li><li>Peter Bieger and Barbara Siefert who married in 1849 in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/li><li>Mary (Dingman) Sargent Landon, born around 1818 in Ontario and died in the early 1850s in Illinois or Iowa. <\/li><li>Elizabeth (Chaney) Rampley (1804-1883), native of Bedford County, Pennsylvania. <\/li><li>Benjamin Butler, born about 1819 in New York State, probably and his wife Margaret Stephens. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And there are several families that I would like to write up what research has already been done. And I&#8217;d like to find out the identify of the Sledd man who murdered a slave in Amherst\/Bedford County, Virginia, in 1811. I also need to finish digitizing the photographs I have from my grandparents, my great-grandmother and my grandfather&#8217;s sister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there&#8217;s a few other individuals I&#8217;d like to flesh out in a little more detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s enough to keep me occupied for a some time. All the descendants of my 6th great-grandparents will simply have to wait. There&#8217;s only so much time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one lives forever and at some point one needs to decide what the &#8220;goals&#8221; &#8216;of their genealogy research are. There are no general right or wrong answers. There are just answers for one individual. For me, I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m not really interested in tracing all the descendants of any of my umpteenth great-grandparents. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}