Setting (and Achieving) Genealogy Goals for 2025
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)
- Jill Morelli’s Certification Discussion Group (CDG)
- Click-Up App
- Notion
- Google Tasks
- RootsTech 2025 Class Schedule
- RootsTech 2025 mobile app (Android)
- RootsTech 2025 mobile app (Apple)
- Relatives at RootsTech
- Reclaim the Records
- BIRLS searchable database
- CBS6 Albany Video on NY Vital Records
- FamilySearch’s goals for 2025
- African Oral History Project
- FamilySearch Labs A.I. Full-Text Search
- FamilySearch “Get Involved” app
- FamilySearch “Together” app
- Branching Out Podcast on Apple (live transcripts)
- Branching Out Podcast on YouTube (live transcripts)