Saturday, 10 January 2026

The year in review - looking back at 2025

 


In previous years, well at least the ones when I did a review of my blog for the year, that review happened in December. So I'm out of sync but then the latter half of 2025 was like that. As I wrote last week, I didn't cover any big continuing stories last year but I was able to group the topics I covered into various categories.

The following list contains the categories and the dates on which they were covered. A link is provided to the first post for each topic.

DNA       February 15        DNA Update

   September 13     Ancestry’s Origins

   October 11          DNA Update

Link to February 15 post

https://genihistorypath.blogspot.com/2025/02/dna-update.html

 

Family Finds & General Musings

                March 29             A Strange connection

                April 5                 The joys of meeting in person

                June 20                More connections for the Hunters and Gilchrists?

                June 28                Hunter/Gilchrist connection on Islay

                July 26                Writing down the family story

                August 2              A genealogical path to history

                August 16            Remembering the weather

                September 6        Family pride of place

                October 4            Family moves

                November 1       Stymied by a mystery

                November 8       Adding descendants and more mysteries

Link to March 29 post

https://genihistorypath.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-strange-connection.html


Family Trees

                February 22        Clues in an overlooked family tree?

                March 1              Further documents to help prove a family tree

                May 17               Adding descendants to my family tree

                September 27     Tempting links to take a tree back

                October 18          Looking at family history from a different perspective

Link to February 22 post

https://genihistorypath.blogspot.com/2025/02/clues-in-overlooked-family-tree.html


Hints and Other Resources

                January 11           Previously untapped research hints

                February 8          Adding to a family’s history through books

                May 24               Tackling a genealogy article backlog

                May 31                Looking for links to Cromwell’s army

                June 14                The Hunter family of Glenegedale

                July 5                   Finds in boxes

                July 19                 Catching up with items saved “for later”

                August 23            What records will we leave?

                August 30            Even genealogy information gets dated

                November 22      Overwhelming hints

                December 6         A possible link to gateway ancestors

Link to January 11 post

https://genihistorypath.blogspot.com/2025/01/previously-untapped-research-hints.html


Research plans, results, etc.

                January 18           Records of questionable behaviour

                January 25           Sorting through past research

                February 1           Families on both sides of the law

                March 8               A further will to add more Strange information

                March 15             A RootsTech visit

                March 22             An adaptable research plan

                April 12               Census information can raise many questions   

                April 19               Occupation – engraver

                April 26               Getting a list of military ancestors together

                May 3                  Earlier military ancestors from my research

                May 20                Some of the more recent military ancestors from my research

                June 7                  Looking back at old research

                July 12                 Memories and genealogy field trips

               August 9              Trying to break an Irish brickwall

               September 20       Chipping away at a brickwall

               October 25          The lure of RootsTech

               November 15       Census problems in research

               November 29       Records with mixed messages

               December 13       End of the year planning

Link to January 18 post

https://genihistorypath.blogspot.com/2025/01/records-of-questionable-behaviour.html


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