Looking Forward, Looking Back
I can hardly believe that it's time for yet another year end review of my family history research. Where does the time go? My biggest challenges continue to be time and distance. I struggle to find a balance between doing all I want to do with my research and maintaining this woefully neglected blog with work and my other real life obligations. I also continue to work around the fact that for now, I am miles away from the areas I want to research and can't run out to the local history room of the New City Library with a question, take a leisurely stroll through the cemetery or drive by an old family home. I continue to learn how to be a different kind of researcher. I spent time this year learning about my Schuler family and how they made it from France to New Orleans to New York. I obtained death certificates and made other connections using newspapers (English and French!) and probate r...