What did I do this week? This week, I was not able to engage with my research as much as I would have liked. Between kids, work, and our household getting a cold, there wasn’t much time left for family history. But I still managed to accomplish a few things. The Audit I have continued with the big audit… even though my squirrelly brain is screaming “I’m bored, let's chase something shiny” - I’ve stuck to my guns, and kept going. I’ve fully fleshed out my great-grandfather, Lo

What did I do this week?

I’m taking the Society of Australian Genealogists Genealogy Methods course over the next 6 months, and I’ve already learned some really useful tricks. The course is being run by Danielle from Generations Genealogy, whose website I would recommend checking out. Today I want to talk about one method I think will be helpful to MANY genealogists — especially those who get overwhelmed with the sheer volume of their research and what to do with it. The New York Times newsroom 1942.

If I could hop in a time machine and travel back to my first year of family history research, I’d do things VERY differently! Today, I’m going to be sharing the things I wish I’d done differently when I began researching my genealogy.