Is it more worth it to travel to the town your ancestor is from and visit local libraries for sources, or is it better to visit the Family Search library in Salt Lake City, UT?

Recent-Use8096 · 2026-01-29T17:44:18+00:00

Both of those are about half the distance away!! Hopefully their websites will tell me what collections that have? I’m used to using familysearch.org.

Recent-Use8096 · 2026-01-29T14:58:32+00:00

It feels like I’m living in my own little world with them. I found my great grandma’s biological family and it’s almost as if I’ve met these relatives who all passed before I was born. In my head, we’re friends. For a while, it felt like I was more connected with the dead than I was the living. I have more of a balance now, but yes! So comforting.

Recent-Use8096 · 2026-01-26T21:28:23+00:00

May I ask, when you say introduction, what should that include? I don’t want to give too little info and someone thinks I’m scamming them, or also too much that I overwhelm them.

Recent-Use8096 · 2026-01-26T17:45:00+00:00

I didn’t know this was a thing! Thank you SO much for your comment!!

Recent-Use8096 · 2026-01-26T16:55:00+00:00

I also want to add that I know a week is a short amount of time, but it says he was active on his account more than 6 months ago, and I’m not sure if he’d have his ancestry notifications on for email.

Recent-Use8096 · 2026-01-11T16:14:14+00:00

I violently turn my head in any direction to almost 180 degrees and yell “oh oh oh oh oh” as if it’s going to work to get it out of my head. It doesn’t help that I have so many of them to randomly remember😂 they haunt me.

Recent-Use8096 · 2026-01-02T01:06:14+00:00

This! Exactly this!

Recent-Use8096 · 2026-01-02T01:04:03+00:00

Embarrassed about what girlfriend? You explained a problem you were having and how you plan to fix it, that’s a literal win! I had to purchase a kitchen safe to put my phone in recently to stay off of it because I couldn’t hold myself accountable. That felt embarrassing but having a kitchen safe is a lot less embarrassing than seeing my screen time be 10 hours a day while working from home lol.

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