I've been using Wordpress for about 3 years now and it's still an expense. One of my underlying worries with the blogger site was that as a free service it is always a candidate for the chopping block and I could lose years of work. The irony is that this year, I lost my wordpress site and had to restore from backups leaving a trail of broken images throughout my site.
Heavy sigh.
I've restored it and thought I should make an update on what has happened since I checked out in late 2016.
I explored how everyone has two family trees (a genetic tree and a paper tree):
https://wanderingtrees.com/2016/12/
I considered possible genetic ties to the Normans in January 2017:
https://wanderingtrees.com/2017/01/
In April 2017, I rediscovered the joy of a hobby rather than the second job I took marching through DNA results and infernal machines:
https://wanderingtrees.com/2017/04/
In July, the Elmer group was able to triangulate Y SNPs within the branches of the Elmer family and assign some SNPs to known ancestors in the family tree beneath Ed Elmer. I also took some time to try to research and identify with Ed and Mary who, as puritans, I had found it hard to connect with.
https://wanderingtrees.com/2017/07/
In August 2017, I got down to some analysis of Ed Elmer as a regular person, his standing in the community and likely position in the hierarchy of society to get a gauge on what I should look for in British records and what station his family may have held in the homeland:
https://wanderingtrees.com/2017/08/
In September, my aunt Cheryl died. Although I had communicated about her paternal family, the best evidence of her place in the Roberts family tree came in after she was gone:
https://wanderingtrees.com/2017/09/
In February 2018, I had another Carr family member pop up in our matches reinforcing previous work with the Carr family.
https://wanderingtrees.com/2018/02/
July of 2018 had me thinking about Y DNA and cultural affiliation or appreciation.
https://wanderingtrees.com/2018/07/
Since I'm posting this near the end of 2019, I should say that I feel there is a backlog of information I could post, but haven't. In late 2018 I went back to school to get my bachelors degree and that has consumed a lot of the time I would normally spend on genealogy. New discoveries and reinforcements continue to roll in but I haven't seen the time to organize my thoughts and post about them.
It is sort of amazing to me that 9 years have passed since I started keeping these online diaries of my family search and that there are still puzzles to solve.
Sorting out the Puzzle Pieces in My Big Messy Family
