I've been able to spend some time with my genealogy this weekend. I've decided to start from scratch, just to make sure everything is properly documented. I watched a Webinar on my Legacy 8.0 genealogy management program. Geoff Rasmussen, the owner of Legacy and presenter of the webinar stated, "Genealogy without documentation is mythology" and "No truth without proof." So, I thought if I started from scratch, I wouldn't be responsible for creating any mythology with my genealogy. During the webinar Rasmussen discussed why people didn't document or took shortcuts to documentation, was that documentation took too much time. Well, one thing I have right now is time....
I debated on which family line to start with and finally settled on my Stange/Cleff ancestors. Not that this line is most important to me, but because it is the most manageable. My Stanley line is overwhelming as this line goes back to the early 1600s in the US and makes up nearly half of my database, and my Blickhahn line is also a little challenging. My Blickhahn records are primarily in German or Latin, even those records created in the US. My Olerud line will be even more challenging because some of the records are in Norwegian and the patronymic naming pattern.