Life has a way of pulling you from genealogical research right when you have made a big discovery. When you return, the excitement of the new find is gone.
- What have you forgotten you had?
- What’s sitting in your files without being analyzed?
There could be big clues waiting in what you’ve forgotten to actually read. That’s what happend to me with nearly seventy pages of letters written by members of my family in the 1880s.
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I’ve been printing everything I find with the source so I can find it again. Then, Rather than filing it I add it to my pile of paper. Eventually I do get around to filing and that gives me a 2nd chance to review that paper. The other day I found I had saved a Josiah that wasn’t the Josiah I thought it was. It was a nephew. Those family names will drive me crazy. I have a brick wall. I have a folder for each couple that I’m stalking. Someday I will get it all connected.