Next in Name Only

Fourteen Months of a Genealogy Society's Flagged Priorities Against What Members Actually Resolve

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities matches fourteen months of a suburban genealogy society's flagged-priority corkboard postings against its own resolution register, finding no relationship between the ancestor line a member currently has flagged and the line that member actually resolves. The Society responded not by retiring the board but by making a currently flagged priority the sole condition for booking its shared archive-access session.

@misc{slop_wpl7bq,
  author       = {Verity Marris and Marek Solheim and Ronja Oyelaran},
  title        = {Next in Name Only: Fourteen Months of a Genealogy Society's Flagged Priorities Against What Members Actually Resolve},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wpl7bq},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-fourteen-months-of-wpl7bq/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}