Genea-Musings

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!

Dean Richardson posted What’s Your Genealogical Superpower? on his Genlighten Blog - Genealogy Documented blog last week, along with a nifty picture of a young lady with a big S on her shirt flying (is that Dean's wife?). I thought Dean's question was a great one for SNGF - so your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to...

1) Answer the question: Do you have a genealogical “superpower”? (i.e., a unique research ability or technique that helps you track down records or assemble conclusions that others can’t?) If so, what is it?

2) Tell us about it in a blog post, a comment to this post, a comment to Dean's post, or a comment to this post on Facebook or Twitter.

3) If you have a picture of yourself in superpower mode, please show it to us!

Here's mine:

1) I think my "Superpower" is to analyze situations, do some research and come to conclusions about how the situation will affect me and my research. I enjoy analytical challenges - especially one involving numbers!

The recent "Who Is Mr. Seaver" series is a good example. I loved the challenge, dug right into the problem, and had the answer within two days of the first contact with my correspondent. I fleshed out all of the details later, but I knew that I had the right answer within 48 hours of the first contact. Of course, the results were all found online - I didn't have to go to a San Francisco society building or library to search in musty papers or books. If I had been unable to find the answer online, I would have done that too, but it would have taken more than 48 hours!

2) This post.

3) I don't have a picture of me flying around the Genealogy Cave (hmmm, you all know, of course, that the Genealogy Cave is really stacked up, so flying is well-nigh impossible, but you get the idea!). Maybe I can get my daughter to take a picture soon in "Thinker" pose with my "Geneaholic" shirt on.

Labels: genealogy blogs, Genealogy Fun, Research techniques, SNGF