| Dear Fellow Genealogist,
I've never been particularly good at staying focused on one thing for very long. Give me a research question and I can somehow end up 27 tabs deep, reading my ancestor's neighbor's probate file and wondering when exactly I stopped researching the person I started with.
Genealogy is good at rewarding curiosity, which is wonderful right up until you realize you've spent an hour productively researching the wrong person or going on a deep-dive into different construction techniques for log cabins commonly used in Indiana in the 1820s.
In today's newsletter, we highlight several practical tips for staying focused while you research and keeping those inevitable rabbit holes from completely taking over. We also round up some of the latest AI tools from the major genealogy companies and walk through how to apply the scientific method to genetic genealogy, with a more structured approach to forming questions, testing ideas and evaluating evidence.
From managing distractions to evaluating AI tools and testing DNA hypotheses, these articles are all about giving our research a little more structure without taking the curiosity out of it.
Closing 25 unrelated tabs and bookmarking them for later,
— Katharine, Digital Editor of Family Tree Magazine
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