Hope you're having a great first week of June!

The school year just ended where we live, so I've taken the week to camp with my family. No new listings this week, but...

Last call for 50% off the MyHeritage Complete Plan--this deal is good through Sunday, June 6th.

This subscription is a great value at the regular price. For $300 you can't fly to an ancestor's locale and visit the government offices to sort through their records.

Sites like MyHeritage have collected these record sets and improved their searchability and added the convenience of searching from our homes. I love how they've integrated DNA testing and tools with historical records and family trees. I'm using their DNA tests (science) to verify the family history that was passed down to me. Here's a blogpost, What I like about the MyHeritage Complete Plan.

Through the Grapevine

I participate in many Facebook groups (check out Katherine Willson's list of Facebook Groups for Genealogy) and am reading a lot of comments about glitches in the Ancestry.com family tree. I don't know if these are actual glitches or user error, but the only thing we can control is our own user error and if you haven't read Daniel Pink's book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, it's brilliant research about performing analytical tasks (like researching genealogical records/DNA records) when our analytical minds are most active and performing creative tasks when our creative minds are most active.

I'll go into more detail in a future blog, but one of the best things I've done for my family history research is adapt my daily routine to fit when my analytical mind is alert vs. my creative mind. I don't even touch my online trees/hints/etc at any site unless my analytical mind is alert. It's just too easy to make mistakes. My condolences to anyone who is struggling with their online trees due to the hosting company's error or their own user error. I've been there, done that. Backing up our work to an offsite tree is a good idea, and another future blog post.

Best with your family history research!