Genealogy is a lonely sport. You spent hours at a computer searching a database for a single relative who lived a hundred years ago. You sit in some musty, dusty room in the back of a library going through roll after roll of microfilm hoping to find at least one obituary. And, then when you…
Tag: Research Methods
Finding Your Best Research Method
I used to take copious notes while sitting at a microfilm reader doing research. The main reason was that in most cases I couldn’t make copies of the documents I was viewing. My notes were my source to work from when I got home. Even when I made copies of documents, I’d bring them back…