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 can find about a person or a family. I was just focused on documenting as many pond crossings as I could.
Might be time to go back and take another look at it. But…have you thought about one type of record and finding as many relatives in that record as you can..instead of finding as much as you can about one person?
Your mileage may vary. Just like the mileage of those boats I found probably varied as well.
But I’m not going down the rabbit hole of how long the trip took…at least not today.
See my incomplete list at: https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/?p=3029
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