Monthly Archive: July 2026

Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List wrote a great article in the October-November-December 2013 issue of NGS Magazine about taking a new approach to genealogical research. She talked about what it takes to shake off old or non-productive ways of doing things and re-wire our brains in order to be more successful. Renowned genealogist Elizabeth Shown Mills talked about the importance of using evidence creatively in order to attain new ideas for working with records we already have. Over time, other genealogical writers have stressed the necessity of changing strategies when the old ways aren’t working. The idea behind all of them is to be open to new or alternate ways of finding and identifying ancestors. It’s easy to think we’ve exhausted the resources, but it’s also possible that something else is out there that we didn’t know existed, especially today with new electronic/digitized resources, or that our search focus was too...