Fellow Aussie genealogy friend, and geneablogging extraordinaire Geniaus, has come up with a wonderful way to review the past year of genealogy. And she’s done it so that you don’t focus on the ‘I didn’t get to do this … or look for that’, she’s decided to focus on the what you did do though her Accentuate the Positive 2012 Geneameme.

Geniaus writes:

Dear Santa: Don’t bring me new dishes,
I don’t need a new kind of game.
Genealogists have peculiar wishes For Christmas
I just want a surname.

A new washing machine would be great,
But it’s not the desire of my life.
I’ve just found an ancestor’s birth date;
What I need now is the name of his wife.

My heart doesn’t yearn for a ring
That would put a real diamond to shame.
What I want is a much cheaper thing;
Please give me Mary’s last name.

The end of the year is looming, and once the excitement and recovery from Christmas is over, many start think about goals or resolutions that they’d like to do (or at least aim for) in the coming year. Yeah, I’m not one of those people. Maybe it’s because everyone else did – and therefore I didn’t want to, and I wanted to be different. Who knows, but for whatever reason I have never particularly done the whole New Year’s resolution thing.

I do however set myself some genealogy goals. For these I don’t bother waiting till the end of one year or the beginning of the next.

It’s now only days away from Christmas, and what better way to celebrate it coming than to reminisce a little with a Christmas Geneameme.

Pauleen from Family History Across the Seas, has come up with Deck the Halls 2012 Christmas Geneameme, and is inviting geneabloggers around to world, to share their Christmas experiences. As she says “the more the merrier”, although she would like all blog posts in by December 16th if possible … and don’t forget to leave a link to your geneameme response in the comments section or on Google+ or on Twitter using hashtag #xmasgeneameme.

For this meme, it doesn’t matter whether you’re religiously inclined or not, just tell us how important this season is to your family.

So here goes …