Ready to set your genealogy goals? In this episode, co-hosts Elizabeth and Tami share strategies for setting and successfully reaching your goals, from education plans to specific research results. Elizabeth and Tami talk about their own goals for 2025 and how they plan to achieve them, including tips and tricks to ensure success.
During What’s Happening, they discuss the availability of the RootsTech Schedule and the RootsTech app for 2025, as well as the recently released BIRLS database from Reclaim the Records. Then, Elizabeth spills the tea on the extreme wait times when requesting NY State vital records. Tami brings the sweet tea, discussing FamilySearch’s goals for 2025.
Finally, during Listener Mail, Elizabeth shares where to find closed captioning for the Branching Out Genealogy Podcast.
TIMESTAMPS:
Genealogy Goals
04:34 Setting goals for the new year
05:03 Types of Genealogy Goals
08:35 Elizabeth’s goals for 2025
09:41 Tami’s goals for 2025
10:20 How Elizabeth sets and achieved a significant genealogy goal
15:43 How Tami sets and achieves her genealogy goals
What’s Happening
23:54 RootsTech Schedule & App
29:48 Reclaim the Records - BIRLS database
Tea Time
35:44 New York State Vital Records ordering wait times
40:43 FamilySearch’s Goals for 2025
Listener Mail
44:28 Where to find closed captioning for our podcast
RESOURCES:
GRIP Genealogy Research Institute (GRIP) - https://grip.ngsgenealogy.org/
Jill Morelli's Certification Discussion Group (CDG) - https://thecdgseries.wordpress.com/the-series/
Click-Up App - https://clickup.com/
Notion - https://www.notion.com/
Google Tasks - https://tasks.google.com/
RootsTech 2025 Class Schedule - https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/schedule?day=2025-03-06
RootsTech 2025 mobile app (Android) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.familysearch.rootstech&hl=en_US
RootsTech 2025 mobile app (Apple) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rootstech/id6474192974
Relatives at RootsTech - https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/relatives-at-rootstech-faqs
Reclaim the Records - https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/
BIRLS searchable database (Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem) - https://www.birls.org/
CBS6 Albany Video on NY Vital Records - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYGSG5PmquY&ab_channel=CBS6Albany
FamilySearch's goals for 2025 - https://www.familysearch.org/en/newsroom/what-to-expect-from-familysearch-in-2025
African Oral History project - https://www.familysearch.org/africa/sve/select-country
FamilySearch Labs A.I. Full-Text Search - https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text
FamilySearch "Get Involved" app - https://www.familysearch.org/getinvolved/
FamilySearch "Together" app - https://www.familysearch.org/discovery/together/welcome
Branching Out Podcast on Apple (live transcripts) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/branching-out-genealogy-podcast/id1782416781
Branching Out Podcast on YouTube (live transcripts) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCswrxVYz2y65xXJve-e35WA
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