AF-1260: What I Accomplished Last Month in My Family History | Ancestral Findings Podcast

Last month was one of those good, steady months in family history where I didn't uncover some huge surprise, but I still got a lot done. I didn't add a long line of new names just to make the tree bigger. I didn't solve every question that's been sitting there waiting on me, either. But I did make real progress, and when I look back on it now, I can see that the kind of progress I made is the kind that helps later.

I spent most of my time working on one family line instead of bouncing all over the place. That alone helped a lot. When I let myself drift from one branch to another, it's easy to end up with a pile of notes, too many open tabs, and not much that feels settled. Last month, I wanted to be more careful than that. I wanted to stay with one line, look at it closely, and really see what I had, what I still needed, and what I may have assumed too quickly before.

That turned out to be a good way to spend the month. By the end of it, I hadn't finished every single thing I wanted to finish, but I knew that line better than I did when the month began. I had a clearer view of the people in it. I had a better sense of which records were helping me and which ones were raising new questions. I also had a much better idea of what I want to do next.

That's a solid month of family history work in my book...

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