What’s a Collection?

I started this site in order to share my genealogy research. When I started I often wrote up my findings on a specific ancestor as a biography and published it as a blog post.

These posts helped me clarify my understanding and interpretation of the research and identify areas for further research. In one particular instance, they led me to understand that problems I was having with the timeline for one family meant my conclusions were incorrect.

But since a blog is ordered by date, these posts became difficult to find fairly quickly. It also became difficult to determine what I’d already written about. And since I couldn’t quickly locate a bio, it was hard to know  whether or not I needed to update a family’s information with new research I’d done.

When I redesigned the site, I decided to consolidate them in one area and to call it “collections.” A collection is basically… well, a collection of biographies associated with a particular family, surname, subject, or location. That’s it.

Take a look and see if I’ve covered something you’d be interested in. And if you have a suggestion of what—or who—you’d like to see covered, drop me a line and let me know.

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