I've finally completed adding another branch to the tree. It was for John Washington Varner. He is my 2nd cousin once removed.
I've updated my RootsMagic database and worked on a few people in FamilySearch. Have not yet shared the family to my Ancestry tree. Ran into a real mess with the FamilySearch Family Tree. There were several duplicates for each person. It took many hours of merging and relinking to clean everything up.
I haven't yet decided what to do with Ancestry. I can use the treeshare feature or I can continue to build and source my tree only on RootsMagic and then eventually load a new tree to Ancestry. The intent of the tree on Ancestry is to make use of their web hint feature but I am finding them a little overwhelming. Since I loaded a new RootsMagic tree to Ancestry, I'm receiving hints for everything, even though I have the record attached to the tree. I have turned off the hints for other member trees but I still have over 3100 hints.
I'm thinking of taking one family unit at a time and working through the various hints for each member of the family. This will mean possibly visiting the same source documents multiple times but I think it will prove to be a more efficient process. This should keep me from chasing down the rabbit holes and losing focus.
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I just visited your blog and see my great-grandfather's name as the title. That was a pleasant surprise. If you have a link to your tree with the "branch" I would love to see it. Also, I will be going to visit the family graves in Lost Creek in the next few weeks -- feel free to send me your list of graves needing pictures.
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