Time once again for Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun in which we are encouraged to state our genealogy goals for 2026. My list is rather short.
1. Finish my revision of my family history on my father's side, Richards Packard, His Ancestors and Descendants in Direct Line to Arden Packard (1911-1954), Together with Some Notes on Selected Collateral Relatives. Yes, that's a mouthful. I am revising it, as I have found a good deal of additional information, and I need to correct some errors in the earlier edition. I plan to send copies to the Georgeville, Quebec, Historical Society, the Library of Congress, the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, the Southern California Genealogical Society, and to provide a copy to my local genealogical and historical societies.
2. Continue filling out my contributions to WikiTree.
3. Finish with success the Profile Improvement Project on WikiTree.
4. Do more in filling out my genealogy on my computer, using Legacy Family Tree.
5. I bought a copy of Planning a Future for Your Family's Past, by Marian Burk Wood. As I'm 78 in a family not generally known for long lives, I need to start preparing for preservation of my family history. WikiTree is part of this planning, for me.
That about does it, because another goal for 2026, covering my life in general, is to practice the practical art of saying, "No." I don't have the time or the energy to be overcommitted, as I have had a habit of doing in the past.
