How to Have More Genealogy Fun - Genealogy Shorts

Are you having fun with your genealogy activities?  Has it become a drag and sometimes even a drudge to do?  I ask this as a serious question, because sometimes it can become more like work than fun. 





Here are a few reasons why it sometimes can seem like a drudge:

1. You've hit a brick wall
2. You are disorganized 
3. You've lost your zeal for research because you haven't found anything/anyone lately 
4. You are overly focused on a goal to increase the number of ancestors and relatives in your database
5. You are overly focused on a goal to to prove that your ancestry goes back to a specific century
6. You are intimidated by the experts and the requirement for detailed source citations and you are not documenting sources "sufficiently"

Here are a few solutions and most importantly one thing (#1) that can give you a positive kick start:

1. Stop focusing on the ancestors you don't know and start focusing on the ancestors you do know
   
2. First of all - if you don't have a family history website - build one
3. Search for newspaper articles about your ancestors
4. Focus on photos of your ancestors for awhile
5. Focus on writing ancestor stories for awhile

I wrote more about this over a year ago: Why Aren't You Having Fun with Your Family History Research? You might want to check it out. 

Let's have some fun, OK?

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