{"id":5667,"date":"2018-01-02T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2018-01-02T16:43:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:43:20","slug":"52-ancestors-in-52-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"52 ancestors in 52 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a challenge initiated by Amy Johnson Crow<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At her website\u00a0<strong>Amy Johnson Crow\u00a0<\/strong>states:<\/p>\n<p><em>You&#8217;ve worked hard on your genealogy. You&#8217;ve made some fantastic discoveries. But what do you actually do with it? Those discoveries don&#8217;t do much good just sitting in your file cabinet or on your computer. That&#8217;s where 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks comes in.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the holidays are over and we enter a new year, it is time for new beginnings. I think Amy&#8217;s suggestions for writing about ancestors are great inspirations to bring our genealogy a step further.<\/p>\n<p>I joined this challenge and just received the first email from Amy with lots of interesting input to get the creativity flowing. As I plan to write a lot about genealogy anyway, I may not be doing the challenge every week.<\/p>\n<p>Amy mentiones several ways to share your writing. If you would like to share your writing with the internet community, I am happy to publish it on this blog. While it is interesting for us to learn about the ancestor you have got a lot of information about, it might be\u00a0 writing about an ancestor that you don&#8217;t know much about that brings you the greatest rewards. Having the names published online and picked up by the search engines, might make connections you never knew about. One example is how I &#8220;met&#8221; my cousin Janet Swanson. 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The guesswork of \"who should I write about\" is taken care of.\u00a0 Last year I had ambitions to participating\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;52 ancestors in 52 weeks&quot;","block_context":{"text":"52 ancestors in 52 weeks","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/category\/genealogy-general\/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiking.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiking.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiking.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiking.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4749,"url":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/friday-finds-week-25-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":5667,"position":3},"title":"Friday finds: Week 25 &#8211; 2017","author":"Martin Roe Eidhammer","date":"June 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It is summer. I am spending less time by the computer, but have still had time to read some blogs this week I have spent some time writing about causes of death found in Norwegian records. 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