I’ve started to rebuild Scott’s family tree in my Ancestry.com account from the research I did over the last holiday break when we were all in Mankato. I’ve got a lot of information and have to re-hand-enter all the relevant members of his family. I’ve just gotten started and it’s going to take quite some time to get all the information in. What really burns is that I have the entire structure exported as a GEDCOM file, but I can’t simply pull a section of tree out and plop it somewhere else. This task is going to take a very long time to complete.

I’m going to start with the family members that we have actual memories for. My overarching goal is to find Scott’s grandfather’s origin story. He came over from Ellis Island in 1906 and crafted a whole new identity for himself. This is a daunting challenge. Before I can take it seriously, I have to get some sleep.

Baby Steps…