BJNL's GENEALOGY

I often find myself following a hunch. Sometimes hunches lead somewhere and sometimes they don't. Sometimes  a hunch remains a niggle you just can’t put to rest. Nonetheless, hunches are worth following because you don’t know what you don’t know until you find it and, even if the hunch doesn't lead you anywhere, you will often learn other stuff in the process of inquiring into it. When you get neck-deep in DNA data, paper trail records and family trees, i t can be hard 'to see the wood for the trees' sometimes. S o, w hen I am following a hunch, I find that writing down the process and findings as I go along helps me better understand what I am seeing and what I need to do next. There is no single right way of investigating family connections but, whatever your methodology, writing it down can bring some clarity.  It also records where you have been in your investigation should you decide to put it down for a while and come back to it later with fresh eyes. The key thi