You may be better able to answer your genealogical questions and improve your research skills by getting outside of your “genealogical comfort zone.” This can be done by:
- Using a source you have never used before–or have refused to use.
- Learning about a new source.
- Helping someone research a family in an area different from yours.
- Researching one of your ancestral neighbors–just to work on a different family and perhaps gain insight into your own family.
It can be easy to get stuck in a rut if we only use the same sources and our family is pretty homogeneous. Sometimes it helps to broaden our perspective.
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These are very good suggestions. I have plans (soon I hope) to look up some new sources, both for myself and those that I help.