First steps in getting started with family history research

10 September 2012

As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been lucky enough to finally have the time to pursue one of my interests, family history research.

I’m jumping in with both feet and have started a blog, Organize Your Family History to share my journey and help other beginning genealogists have fun and keep from being overwhelmed (it’s so easy to feel overwhelmed!) as they do their research.

Last week, I had a guest blog post on Geralin Thomas’s Managing Modern Life® blog at MetropolitanOrganizing.com, called Five Tips to Organizing Your Genealogy Research, about the first steps to take in getting started. If you’ve thought about doing genealogy research but didn’t know where to start, click on the link you’ll see it’s quite simple. And you’ll also benefit from learning from the mistakes I made when I started this journey about ten years ago. (It stalled due to overwhelm and lack of time.)

I’m really enjoying the discoveries I’ve made. (Yesterday’s discovery: my great great great great grandfather was taken prisoner during the Battle of Shiloh in the Civil War.) I think this is a fascinating hobby.

As I posted before, I’ll be posting on my organizing blog on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and on my family-history blog on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I hope you’ll join me there on occasion!

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