As most of you know, I have a blog where I mostly post profiles of ancestors and family groups, with a lot of personal asides and commentary. I have a page in my research notes where I list each direct ancestor couple by generation. Grandparents (2 sets) - check! Great-grandparents (4 sets) - check! And so on. Doing the math, even with cousin-marriages leading to duplicates and solid brick walls, it doesn't take long to get to over a hundred couples in the pipeline! (Darn exponential growth. ) Anyway, I've worked out a sort-of system to choose my research focus. I'm just curious how everyone else does it! Or do you even think about it?
I daren't even think about thinking about it! (My furthest ancestor is my 22 x great grandfather. Goodness knows what the sums would work out for him! )
I can't quite think what you mean. Every time I think I'm doing good stuff, I get diverted at the site of another name which hasn't got a spouse or a death date & just 'pop over' to that one for a while until I get diverted by a name which I'm sure I've seen in my DNA matches & away I go again. I am filling in some spaces but the original persons I began with become just a memory until I get diverted back to them. Happily Legacy lets me put a reminder at the bottom of the family page as to who I was looking into.
I’m with Wendy - I get so easily side-tracked that I lose sight of any good intentions I had of being ‘organised’ in my research Having said that, I seem to get there in the end, but focused isn’t really a word that springs to mind .....
Well, I have thought about it....isn't going to happen though!! I'm with Wendy....I get side-tracked, up and down-tracked and diagonally-tracked.
Thank you, Ladies. I guess it's just me, then. Not to say I don't get side-tracked, because I do. I'm lost without to-do lists.
I start off full of good intentions and tell myself not to get side-tracked but then come across a name which I am sure I recognise as being in my Tree somewhere already, so get diverted into researching that name!! Having said that, my paternal line especially intermarry an awful lot, so it has proved extremely useful tying up the loose ends as regards siblings, cousins, etc. Janet
I do love a to-do list. I am a proper list maker which drives my husband mad. But I will never change- it's what I do! Please to meet another one.
Don't get me wrong, I have to keep 'to-do' lists, otherwise I'd never get anything done.......it's just in the world of family history that I can't get the hang of it
Just because I make a lot of lists doesn't mean I get it all done - or that I stick to them without getting sidetracked!
I thought I was just researching now I realise I am expert sidetracker my "twiglets" are sometimes more interesting than the branches as for lists I do make some but then cant remember where I put the list to remind me which list to do first
Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one. I get side-tracked all the time and as for lists, my fridge has reams of paper attached to it with all my 'to do' lists that I will do.....one day
DNA has made getting side tracked even worse and it's even more time consuming . I need to start doing 'to do lists' and become more focused Grannybarb, your blog sounds interesting and a good idea
