Posts in November 4, 2026

Have you written about how genealogy has impacted you, what it has taught you, and perhaps even how it has changed you? I’m not talking about the few words you learned in a foreign language, how you learned to make research logs, or what you know about the FAN method. Those are helpful things in your genealogy research, but I’m thinking about more impactful things. I used to joke that what I learned about my ggg-grandfather dying in 1855 was not to load your shotgun while drunk and think it was smart to hit a cow with the butt of said shotgun. Then I got a little more sophisticated and thought about what it meant for his widow and two small girls (both 5 and under) to be […]