Good Monday morning! I appreciate your patience with me as I am still deeply involved in settling the estate of my late beloved Mother. I am meeting myself coming and going and am not answering all e-mails quite as promptly. Oh to be in my 40s again! Now for a little tip of the week. For many of us, we've been digging into the past of our family tree for many years. Things have changed a lot for those of us "old timers." Records that were unavailable to us in the beginning might be popping up on the internet or in newly published books. We might have scraps of paper stuck in files, some totally undocumented as to their source ... we forgot to write down where and when we found that information. Maybe we have some brick walls or lost lines that we just gave up on. So, when you're bored; when it's too hot, too cold, too stormy, etc. to get out and research, take some time to go back over your family tree. Revisit the data you have collected and double-check it. See if you can find your source for the information. Check on those brick walls - has something you found later answered the question and you had just forgotten to go back and double check it? Have you tried tracing the female ancestors - they will often give you a lot of clues to the male line. Double check your conclusions reached years ago; could you have assumed the wrong thing, picked up the wrong person thinking they were part of your family tree? I've found errors from the past in my records and when I double-checked them, it opened up new research. Just an idea - Sandi