Posts in December 9, 2025

As some of you know, I’m a huge non-fan of the made up genealogy challenges and “games” that I think tend to be a waste of time. I’m well aware that one person’s waste of time is another person’s reason for existance, but there’s no crime in not getting all excited about some game just because everyone else is. But nearly ten years ago, I spent some time compiling an incomplete list of my known ancestors who immgrated to the US and some key details in their appearance. It was a good activity for me at the time. Of course it covered a wide time period, but doing it allowed to focus on one thing: passenger lists and immigration. That’s a different approach from working on everything we […]