6 Ways to Get Your Genealogy Research Groove Back 

Perfect, perfect, perfect topic. Just this morning I told my hubby that I was about to give up on the brick wall of my paternal great grandfather and maternal great grandmother that I have been working on for years.

Thanks for your idea on how to manage balance all I want to do. It's ALWAYS been a problem for me.

I'm glad I watched this one again. I'm making notes I should have made the first time including The Genealogy Serenity Prayer . AND this reminds me of a thought I had the first time. "Devon, we want to see you in your Catwoman outfit, please!"

I have work out on each of the ancestors that I have been working on. That way, when I feel crazy about Joseph Beyer, I can put him down. I have zero on him and he makes me nuts so I go over to my newly- found Hogans who make me feel joyful.

All really good advice. I think one of the things that dictates my interest in a topic is my association with others concerning it and my assistance or collaboration with them seems to be a primary factor in what I am pursuing at the time. However I also suffer from seizures and they have affected my memory to the point that a month might go by and I might realize that I have not been active with a particular project because I had completely forgot about it. I was keeping separate spiral notebooks for separate genealogy projects and that was working for awhile but I was having more problems writing that many notes so I decided it was easier to type them up in a Word document. Or if I am having more success that can also dictate where I like to stay. Currently that is overwhelmingly in Italian research. Other than genealogy I also have my own music and Italian language studies that I try to keep up with in my spare time. Not sure how to keep them all in equal focus. Again the participation, collaboration or interest of others usually dictates a lot of that. I will be appearing online in an interview next month so I need to prepare for that (Italian genealogy research) so for the present that will take priority over some other projects. Yes, it is a difficult thing to figure out sometimes. I guess each of us probably has different methods of dealing with it or some of us just don't or don't all the time. I don't really think it's necessarily etched in stone. At least it isn't for me. ;-)

Great tips.

My research style is working on multiple projects at once. I can't seem to make myself focus on one thing at a time. This came in handy in my work life. But, I sure wish I was more consistently organized.

This was a fun video, and I can relate to the hyper focused style! LOL. I do keep a list of research questions for when I get off track but that’s about it. Currently, I am struggling with how to find an ancestor of my husband's who was a mariner and died in 1886 in Nova Scotia, during a period when the province was not registering death records. He may have died at sea. We cannot find any reference to his death, but the family knowledge is that the year is correct and it fits with the story. Maybe newspapers would be my next place to look?

I just found out that my father is not my father. My parents are deceased. I have no idea who he is. All I know is that he is Jewish. My other father and siblings are Finnish and Swedish. . But I am 25% Jewish. No Finnish or Swedish.