Welcome to Carol’s Blog, a forum to share my thoughts and yours.
The vision for the beginning of this endeavor came from frustration felt on a genealogical research trip. The day had been spent at the well stocked DAR Library in Washington, DC. One would think, with the current popularity of genealogical research, that the library would have been overflowing with individuals diligently working to document their past. Not so……… The library was, instead, almost empty.
The reason can be easily explained. Today’s genealogical beginner operates under the assumption that all her research can be successfully conducted on the internet. Not so…….. Successfully uncovering family secrets that have been lost to time can only come through primary source records. Only a small fraction plethora of information required has been transcribed and/or digitized and made available in cyberspace. The rest require good old fashioned research at libraries, archives, and courthouses in your locations of interest.
Even worse speculative and inaccurate information circulated over the internet discourage researchers from finding the true answers. What can be worse than thinking one’s ancestor is someone who really wasn’t!
In the coming days, weeks, months and years we will blog research, among other things. Thoughts and ideas are ever seeking to make the journey from mind to keyboard.
(Note: A software upgrade on my Web Host has required a conversion to a new software package. Therefore you will find in the Archives a number of older postings with a current date.)