Some research projects seem to shower down multiple tidbits of information, while others only eke out a bare hint of an answer. With last month's slow progress on my father-in-law's Flanagan line, you might expect today's biweekly report to be lackluster. Surprise! That simply isn't so, now that I've counted the results of my efforts.
Truth be told, the jump in this latest progress report is actually owing to a persistent refusal not to let go of the research goal for the previous month. Yep, I've still been working on my mother-in-law's Rinehart line from June, behind the scenes.
While that chore is nothing to write home about, the quest to include descendants of the newly-discovered children of Simon Rinehart has added up to a significant number of names on my mother-in-law's side of the family tree. Just in the past two weeks, with hardly a Flanagan among the names I've been finding, I managed to enter 212 additional Rinehart descendants to my in-laws' family tree. The tree now has a total of 41,059 individuals documented. And I'm still not quite done with that task from June.
My own tree, in the meantime, has stood stock still at 40,259 individuals. I'll resume work on that tree in the last quarter of the year, when I move from my father-in-law's Irish ancestry to the Polish forebears of my own father. In the meantime, we'll begin work in earnest on my father-in-law's Falvey ancestors from County Kerry tomorrow.
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