It happened again. I meant to just look into one thing and suddenly I've lost the whole day.
Sometimes while tracking down stories of my ancestors I get so involved in chasing one more clue that I totally lose track of time.
A nibble on land records in the 1800s and a nibble in the newspapers and I'm gone for hours hunting down someone that might not even be related to me. And two days later I know their complete life story and it has no relation to my family at all.
I have a genealogical "brick wall". That's an ancestor I can't get past. I know the county in Ireland where he was born and a marriage record, so I should be happy with that, but I'm always trying to give it a nudge. He came over during the Potato Famine years and a lot of those records were lost.
It's frustrating because there is so much information available. And I am willing to page through old documents online, but they often don't have the dates I need.
Which leaves me behind on everything this week because I went a little overboard on the research.
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