Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- A Research Problem and Lessons Learned
Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another mission for us: It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun ! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) Think back to when you first started doing genealogy and family history research. What was one of your first real research problems? How did you attack the problem? Did you solve the problem? If so, how? What lessons did you learn from this experience? 2) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a comment on Facebook. When I started out doing genealogy, my friend, Susan, showed me how to find ancestors using the U.S. Federal Census records on microfilm. I wrote about it here . I found the first families in the 1920 census and began to work my way back. This method worked very well by finding most of my father’s and mother’s ancestors, at least back to 1850. Earlier census records had only the head of hou