Family Tree Frog

  Have you set New Year's Resolutions for Family History? Did you watch Thomas MacEntee's great talk on the MyHeritage Facebook page? He suggested keeping it real, which I think is a brilliant suggestion.  We are all guilty of setting goals that are too big.  Keep them bite-size.   What will help us get there?  A tree with lots of branches of course and good foundations or roots ! Do you have a budget?  Do you have a strategy?  Are you measuring your results?  If not, how will you know you are making progress?   I have been so inspired by the progress of other genealogists with their scanning, filing, writing and so on. Shauna Hicks  and Jennifer Jones spring to mind. Budget I need to focus on the areas that Thomas suggested: Organization Workflow Information Methodology Education and Legacy I think all of us focus on that last area in a big way.  We want to leave a lasting legacy but are overwhelmed by how much there is to do and ...

THE PROBLEM OR TASK Today's research efforts have been about trying to add more ancestors to the Lost Cousins website in the fond hope of finding more cousins.  I wanted to find a census entry for Samuel FOYNE, my 3rd great-grandfather.  My cousin Sharon also has a theory that the FOYNES come from Ireland originally.  We're contemplating engaging a researcher in the UK to dig deeper for us. I volunteered to come up with a research question and this research is part of that mission. One of the great things about family history, and one of its traps , is when family members use the same first names over the generations.   I have been tracing the FOYNE family for a while and am keen to find its origins. The FOYNEs married into the CONNER family in 1851.   Rebecca FOYNE married Edward CONNER at St Paul's Deptford London on 19 January 1851. [i] Rebecca's father was recorded on the marriage certificate as Samuel FOYNE, Cabinet maker. No reco...