Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

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Everything or Nothing?

Randy Seaver's challenge for this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun:

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again – time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) What started but unfinished projects do you have? Define one or more of them, and how far along are you in the project.

My Answer: Everything. Or Nothing.

How's that for an answer?

I'm constantly working on various aspects of my genealogy research, but I don't mentally categorize any of that work as a "project."

Since genealogy is never truly complete, I could argue that everything is unfinished.

On the other hand, since I don't think of my research in terms of individual projects, I could just as easily argue that I don't have any unfinished projects.

So, my answer to this week's challenge is both everything and nothing!

And tomorrow? I'll simply continue researching.

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