Why this blog.

Over the years I have done some hunting for Ancestors and more recently have started again in earnest. The world of genaealogy has changed so much that it feels like starting from scratch. I find myself with several repositories of family trees and an incredible amount of paper archives collected for that elusive “when the times comes” to document it all. Well the time has come and the mind boggles where to start.

As there are so many blogs already helping people to begin their research or on how to use various tools now available, I decided to approach this blog rather differently.

Every time I get stuck - which could be quite often - I will post here how I dug myself out of the mess (hopefully) or dug a bigger hole. If others find it useful then that’s great and if they have better ideas on how to solve a problem then better still.

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints shortened to LDS and more commonly nicknamed The Mormon church. This gives me a number of advantages as we have incredible resources available to us. As these resources are freely available also to non church members, I hope my discoveries will help others.

I was born in Germany and my family and I migrated to Australia when I was 11. Lucky for me, I still speak the German language which is useful when all your ancestors lived and died in Germany. I also help my husband whose ancestry is English, Scottish and Irish as well as several generations Australian. As I have recently been called to serve in the Family History Centre of our church, I am going to have to be a fast learner to help others who visit the centre and members of my ward.

I share all this so as to explain the direction my research might take me and to encourage anyone finding and reading this blog, to hang in there as in the future, there may be something that is relevant.

Thank you for visiting. Some posts are already in my head and will be added and published during the next few days. There are many ways to dig and research. My way may not be the best way and it is definitely not the ONLY way but it has helped me along the way and I hope others will find these posts useful.