{"id":8685,"date":"2014-10-28T15:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2019-10-24T12:33:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T16:33:55","slug":"what-say-you-your-top-genealogy-challenges-frustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/what-say-you-your-top-genealogy-challenges-frustrations.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Top Genealogy Challenges & Frustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/em><\/strong>: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this blog post, Mary shares some of the responses her social media friends gave when she asked the question: \u201cJust what frustrates everyone about genealogy?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the GenealogyBank blog published my article \u201cWhy Do You Love Genealogy<\/a>?\u201d The responses were engaging and it was clear that there is a world of genealogy addicts out there. So I decided to query my social media friends again: Just what frustrates everyone about genealogy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The responses were enlightening and immediate\u2014over 200 responses about the ups and downs of genealogy. Surprisingly, there weren\u2019t as many frustrations about barking up the wrong tree as I imagined. Most were about brick walls, dead-ends, missing information, and how people share or misreport genealogy.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t include them all, so have picked some of the more enlightening answers to share. They are grouped by topic and the initials indicate the name of the respondent.<\/p>\n

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Brick Walls & Dead Ends<\/strong><\/p>\n