Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It’s Saturday Night again – 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  Have you been down a genealogy rabbit hole lately?  What was it, and what did you find?  [If not, go find a rabbit hole! Try your FamilySearch Notifications or Ancestry.com Photos or Stories.]

Before attempting to answer this question, I asked Google about ‘genealogy rabbit holes’.

In genealogy, a “rabbit hole” refers to getting sidetracked during research, where a seemingly minor discovery leads to a deep dive into a new, often unrelated, area of family history. This can involve becoming engrossed in a new line of ancestors, a fascinating historical event, or a seemingly minor detail that then consumes significant research time. It’s characterized by losing focus on the original research question and getting lost in a web of new connections and details. 

Besides providing a description of a rabbit hole, there were links to quite a few sites about genealogy rabbit holes, including the following:

• Genealogy Rabbit Holes
• 5 Steps to Turn Genealogy Rabbit Holes into Productive Searches
• How to Stay Focuesed in Your Genealogy Research

So, have I been down a ‘genealogy rabbit hole’ lately? It depends on one’s interpretation. While some might consider my recent research activities going down a rabbit hole, I do not. While I have not been researching an ancestor or a collateral line, my current line of research is to figure out how I might be related to yDNA matches in hopes of identifying the parents of James Crawford (1772-1854) [L7F6-MWJ].

Thus, I’ve been researching James Crawford [G1R7-CPT], his wife Elizabeth Robertson and their descendants. According to the CRAWFORD FAMILY information in the publication Miamia Valley Genealogies, James is a brother to Alexander Crawford [LRVH-5GV]. I was hoping my research would lead to a candidate for yDNA testing. Unfortunately, it appears that there are no male descendants of this James Crawford.