SLIG Day 5 – What is Your Plan?

I hate to recycle content.  I wrote “A Call to Action,” two months ago.  But it is sooo important, particularly for my fellow SLIG 2020 graduates.
 
Before you pack your syllabus for your trip home, before you stick it on your shelf when you arrive there, open it to the inside of the cover and answer this question – “What is your plan for continued advancement in 2020, 2021 and 2022?”
 

• I have some DNA websites I haven’t spent enough time on (sheepishly…some I haven’t spent ANY time on.)  I need to become familiar with some of those tools and evaluate where they might be useful.
• In a number of cases presented by my nine instructors and six fellow DNA dreamers I’ve seen multiple cases quite similar to a couple of my own problems.  On my husband’s Murphy-Porter line (which according to one document is really Murphy-Montgomery) and on my own great-great grandfather Peter Bradley’s family of origin, I think I can make some headway with some of the strategies my teachers employed to solve their problems.  I’ve already begun building descendant trees to find distant cousin and beg for spit.  Will I employ the David Ouimette just-show-up-on-the-doorstep method?  Time will tell.
• I’ll review my genealogy and see what family lines might lend themselves to DNA work.  Might any of these be appropriate projects for a recertification portfolio? 
• Find a DNA buddy - I need a partner to work with and to share learning with.

 
As I reflect in the next few days I’m sure I’ll find a few more plans and goals.  How about you, fellow SLIGsters - What is your plan?