Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Lament of a Lukewarm Genealogist


I believe that genealogy is important, but I haven't done much of my own. Most of my experience with genealogy comes from the FamilySearch Indexing program. I did try to do my own work by taking a class on Scandinavian family history. It was a good class, and I learned some useful techniques from it. Sadly, though, I haven't continued my work. Perhaps I just find the research too time consuming. Time, though, isn't the only cost. The best archives for Sweden cost money to access. BYU subscribes to them, but you can only access them from campus. I'd like to see free genealogy archives for more countries; I might be persuaded to spend more time on genealogy if I could freely browse census records during a spare moment at home.

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