challenge – Family Locket

What Researchers Learn from the 14-Day Research Like a Pro Challenge

Jan 15, 2025

I’m excited to choose my research objective for the upcoming 2025 14-Day Research Like a Pro Challenge! It starts on January 21. As I look through my research questions and think about which one to tackle, I love seeing what I have learned from past challenges. I also asked in our Facebook group to hear what others’ learned. The structured daily approach has helped so many of us make breakthroughs in our family history research....

Who was Sally Keaton? Determining Unique Identifiers for a Research Objective

Jan 23, 2024

Uniquely identifying a person who is only mentioned in three records can be challenging. The creation of a research objective requires that you identify the person uniquely in time and place. How then, do you define the research project? I encountered this challenge when beginning a project to study Sally Keaton. The only records I have for her include a court order printed in a newspaper and two documents in William Keaton’s estate packet. The...

RLP 184: Revisiting Research Objectives Again

Jan 17, 2022

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is about research objectives. Learn about this first step in the research like a pro process. This is a replay of episode 113, with commentary at the beginning and end by Diana and Nicole. We talk about Diana’s experience discovering more about her 2nd great-grandmother, Nancy Briscoe as part of a 14 Day mini-Research Like a Pro challenge. Transcript Nicole (1s): This is a Research Like a Pro...

How To Research in 30 Minutes a Day: Research Like a Pro 14-Day Mini Challenge

Jan 7, 2022

What progress can you really make in setting aside 30 minutes a day to research your family history? You may feel that you need a block of several hours at a time for research, but if you use a focused process, each day can build on the previous work. You’ll find yourself coming to the end of a project either having solved your objective or having laid a foundation for moving the research forward. I...

Research Like a Pro in 30 Minutes a Day: Free Webinar and 14 Day Challenge

Mar 13, 2020

Is your genealogy society cancelling their monthly meeting due to the Coronavirus? One of our subscribers mentioned that her society would like to stay home and watch a webinar for their monthly meeting instead. She asked if we could provide a lecture for their society. We thought we would share our Research Like a Pro in 30 Minutes a Day recorded webinar for her and for any of you who are in the same boat....

14 Day Mini Research Like a Pro Challenge

Jan 12, 2019

Have you been wanting to try the research like a pro process, but are feeling overwhelmed with all that you have to do? Maybe you have done the process once, or started the process, but got busy and didn’t finish. Diana and I have been brainstorming a new way for everyone to practice the research like a pro process in a simple, easy to follow format. We thought a daily challenge might work! So if...