Life doesn’t let us stay on just one road. To make it interesting it throws in roundabouts, u-turns, side roads and sometimes even one way streets. Whether we like it or not, we adapt and go with it. Genealogy is like that too. Sure you’re going along fine, then you find a name in records you’re browsing that sounds a bit familiar – and you’re given two choices: 1. to ignore it as it’s not connected to your current research, or 2. check it out, and see where it takes you, which can lead to you leaving your current research, and totally following this person. Personally I think there is nothing wrong with that as long as you can accept that “what-was-your-current-research” is now pushed back at least one level. And depending on just how interesting this family is, as to how long you continue to be sidetracked. It can be a few hours , a few days, a week or even months … sometimes even longer (gasp). But trust me if it’s that long, it means the family is worth researching because they are just SOOOOO interesting. Anyway I have come to the realisation that my Genealogy road took a new direction (or two) earlier this year. While thinking about what I have and haven’t done genealogy-wise this year, and I see that while I haven’t done things I had hoped, while others that weren’t even in my thinking six months ago I have done. So it’s not all bad, it’s just simply a new direction, or a detour. So here a little run-down on my have and have not’s for genealogy this year: Did I continue with my own family research? – Now that would have been...