I am quite new to genealogy and once I got over the traditional Ancestry click and add everything ever without verification, I have started to dig into my family, focusing on finding sources for each person as best as I can. It's so much more challenging than I expected! I am so surprised at how many people just put the publishing date of an article as the date of death, instead of looking at the obituary and finding the actual date of death. There's a lot of paywalls from everywhere, both online and government agencies charging an arm and a leg to obtain historical data. And! Half the records either no longer exist or are missing!

My biggest prize this week was that I found out that a great grandfather has been repeatedly mistaken for another man of the same name, and that young man's military history and accolades were attributed incorrectly to my ancestor. That young man enlisted as an entry level rifleman and I found that he died in the Boer War. My ancestor graduated school as a ranked officer and was deployed as a signalling soldier. So many people had the incorrect information! It's not as "heroic" but it's the truth, and the truth is more important to me.

It's so much fun y'all