I began researching my family tree out of curiosity, after years of not being interested in it whatsoever. I had no idea whatsoever what I was doing. I was beyond clueless.
I have always been the type that figures things out, mostly accidentally. This family tree and genealogy business has been no exception.
It is rather funny. Professional genealogists have been stumped by portions of my family tree, which I have accidentally stumbled upon the answer. So, I am quite blessed and unfortunate, though is has nothing to do with any skill on my part, but on dumb luck, thanks to the grace of God.
If you want to do your family tree, or are, keep digging. Don't give up. And, make searching online and opening up most every link you find. It's been through looking at the links I didn't think would help me at all that have filled in a missing piece.
Read every link online all the way through. You may think most of what is written junk. But, I guarantee there is at least one nugget of good information in most blog posts.
Think of yourself as a private investigator and an explorer. Grab your spyglass and hat. Then, grab your hiking gear and go wandering. Look at other family trees. Look everything up online through an online search. Keep digging. Act like an archaeologist.
Keep the excitement of adventure.
And, then you will grow your family tree.
And, not only that, history will become alive to you and will be a quite exciting and thrilling adventure.
This is what I have done and keeps off the pressure. It makes it enjoyable, not the type of hitting your head against the wall activity.
Your family tree is what you need to be doing. Exciting!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you. It is rather exciting.
ReplyDeleteI have always loved pretending in make-believe to go to exotic places and explore those places and their history. I did this as a child and I think this is what I do with my family tree research. It's my hope with this blog to do much the same. The only difference is, this is reaL life and I can go anywhere over the Internet.
Whoops. Sorry about the typing error above.
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