Change for the sake of change is just change.

Change with a purpose is a separate matter entirely.

What new skill have you learned to help you with your genealogical research? Is there a software program that might help you to organize your genealogical information? Do you know as much about legal terminology as you should? Are you familiar enough with land descriptions to interpret them reasonably well (particularly helpful if your ancestors were landowning farmers)?

Do you know how to make charts and tables in your word processor well enough so that you can use them to organize pieces of information that are confusing?

Don’t be afraid to learn something new. It may help you with more than just your research.

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  1. I found by offering help to others to build their trees that I learned more in looking to expand my view in looking at my own. I helped a cousin-in-law, who was adopted, work on his dna and known maternal tree, which led me to the French-Canadian records, which proved to be his paternal side, records of some which were in French. It led to using Google Translate in trying to translate words enough to figure out parentage, place names, and even degrees of relationships. But more, it gave me a open perspective in information that sometimes the modern perspective is a bit close minded.

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