{"id":245,"date":"2012-10-25T09:16:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norsky.net\/TerisBlog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2012-11-29T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T17:57:19","slug":"say-no-to-the-shotgun-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Say No to the Shotgun Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find that I make more progress with my genealogical research when I focus on one family<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/norsky.net\/TerisBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102512_1616_SayNototheS1.png\" alt=\"\" \/>line at a time. Recently I am feeling almost disoriented because I have not been following my own advice. All year, I have tried to find the discipline to study only the Finns, but I keep getting distracted.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, I went to Salt Lake City for a research trip. After one day with Finnish records, I needed a break from that difficult task. I spent the remainder of my time at the LDS library investigating my English and Scots-Irish lines in the American Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>I resumed some Finnish research once I returned home, but a week later I attended the semi-annual <em>Palatines to America <\/em>seminar in Denver. This took my attention away from the Finns again as I spent an entire day learning about German research from Dr. Michael Lacopo.<\/p>\n<p>What a harried month! The Finns, the English, the Scots-Irish, the Americans, the Germans! No wonder my head spins. I need to get everything I collected this month filed and put away pronto. Perhaps then I can get back to the focused research tool that works for me, the laser, not the shotgun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find that I make more progress with my genealogical research when I focus on one familyline at a time. Recently I am feeling almost disoriented because I have not been following my own advice. All year, I have tried to find the discipline to study only the Finns, but I keep getting distracted. Earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,4,7,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finland","category-genealogy","category-general-genealogy","category-germany","category-reed","category-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}