March 3 Blog Assignment

My topic for my wonder project has gotten less interesting. I knew prior to beginning my project that I was related to the second president by marriage and the sixth by blood, but I figured I would discover some cousins I could get to know or more ancestors that were important to American history. I was wrong. I have finished most of my dad’s side of the family tree and now I am beginning my mothers and everyone in my family is a farmer. I have learned that to trace people back as far as I want to I need to get out and talk to my family more than just search the internet, and I have also learned that I should have begun my research sooner because there is a lot to genealogy. I have learned techniques to find a family tree and also more about my ancestors, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, but there isn’t much more to learn. I have learned that my family began in Utah and have moved south through Louisiana to now we are in Gulfport. I have read more in my book to page 90 and it has a lot of good tips and links to help me progress in my research. The hardest thing about this project is getting back into the time before internet. For recent people in my family I can use Facebook and other websites, but past that it take detective work to find the people. Another hard thing about this project is finding sufficient articles about my ancestors. I only have two that have things written about them so my entire research paper will have to be about those two people. I plan to mention some others in my family but just information I have found because there aren’t articles written about them so  they could not be included in my bibliography. I don’t really have any questions about the project because I think I understand what I have to do for the most part.