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Taking on the 2026 14-Day Research Like a Pro Challenge

Image courtesy of Family Locket, used with permission.   It's January and time for the 14-Day Research Like a Pro Challenge brought to us by the mother-daughter team of Diana Elder and Nicole Dyer at Family Locket . I love the dedicated time to focus on a particular research question. The challenge takes researchers through the 7-step Research Like a Pro process to solve genealogical questions.  Here's what I've done in the first seven days of the challenge:    Day 1 - Objective: Research Question My question for this year's challenge flows from some research I did last year on Maria Jane Darragh, a second great-grandmother. While I have learned a good deal about her already, some questions remain. First, why was Maria Jane's mother, Dorah Elliot Darragh, buried in the same plot as Joanna Elliot? Dorah Darragh died on 12 October 1856, while Joanna Elliot died three months prior, on 15 August 1856. Both are buried at St. Stanislaus Catholic Cemetery in Chats...
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Behind the Stories: A Peek Behind the Research Curtain

Do you want to peek behind the genealogical curtain? 1

Have you ever wondered how I come up with information for my blog posts? It should come as no surprise that the stories all flow from research discoveries.

Genealogical research can be as simple as ordering a vital record, like a birth or death record. Or, it can be as complicated as researching multiple generations of a family line for a lineage society, or looking deeply at a person or event—and take several months to complete.

The constant in all my research? I invariably find many interesting stories along the way to answering a specific research question, and these stories beg to be told.

I recently focused on my Croatian great grandmother for a two-part blog series. The information I uncovered was the product of the "Research Like a Pro," research process I use, created by genealogists/podcasters Diana Shults Elder and Nicole Dyer. They kindly asked me to write about my project for their FamilyLocket blog.

So, if you'd like to peek behind my "genealogical curtain," dive into the blog post, "Identifying Reasons for Emigration Using the Research Like a Pro Process."2

Until next time...

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NOTES

1 Sir John Tenniel, Alice in Wonderland illustration, Project Gutenberg (https://bit.ly/2JNrG8s: accessed 6 April 2020). This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net.

2 Diana Elder and Nancy Gilbride Casey, "Identifying Reasons for Emigration Using the Research Like a Pro Process." FamilyLocket, 11 March 2020 (https://bit.ly/2JIvbx7 : accessed 6 April 2020).









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