Our 2022 Genealogical Wish List (from our DGS Board & Publication Volunteers)

First, the practical (and purchasable)

• A one year subscription to Find My Past
• A one year subscription to DNA Painter
• Membership in a genealogical society
• Subscription to a genealogical magazine
• Genealogy software package

Next, a bit more pricey:

• A week researching at the National Archives
• A paid tuition for a genealogical conference or institute

Then, quite the opposite – priceless gifts of time:

• Share a trip with me to a cemetery, library, old home place, etc.
• Spend time with me identifying old pictures

And, finally, the “probably not going to happen” gifts:

• A genealogical vacation that my husband would also enjoy
• The Military Records Center in St. Louis finding my grandfather’s file for service in WWI
• Stumbling across a diary of my ancestor’s first years after emigration to the US 
• Archion.de putting all the rest of my German Lutheran church records online
• Sources-for all those people my green genealogist self copied from others’ trees (oops!)
• A genealogy organizer to help me keep what I need and get rid of what I don’t, and then make an inventory for me
• The unexpected discovery of preserved nineteenth-century census records for Ireland
• Time machine, giving more time for genealogy, and letting me ask the questions I should have asked when I was young

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