When people hear the word blog, they often think of frequency, promotion, or commentary tied to the moment. That isn’t what this space is for.
This site is built on Pages — carefully structured, intentional, and meant to last. Pages hold what we know, how we know it, and where the evidence lives. They are designed to be steady, navigable, and dependable.
A journal serves a different purpose.
A journal exists because research is not static. Understanding changes. Questions evolve. Sometimes the most important part of genealogy isn’t the record you find, but the moment when a record fails to answer the question you thought you were asking.
This Journal is where those moments live.
It’s where I can write down a realization before it becomes polished enough to deserve a Page. It’s where frustration, surprise, doubt, and perspective can exist without being resolved. It’s where small discoveries matter, even if they don’t yet connect to a larger conclusion.
Most importantly, it’s where the human side of research is allowed to breathe.
Genealogy often presents itself as tidy: names, dates, places, citations. In practice, it’s anything but tidy. It’s slow. It’s emotional. It’s filled with assumptions that quietly collapse once you look closely enough. A journal acknowledges that reality without apologizing for it.
You won’t find instructions here. You won’t find indexes or definitions. You won’t find anything that claims to be authoritative.
What you will find are reflections written at the pace research actually happens — unevenly, thoughtfully, and sometimes unexpectedly.
Some entries may feel personal. Others may feel unfinished. That’s intentional. Not everything needs to become permanent architecture. Some things simply need to be recorded while they’re still forming.
This Journal is not here to compete with the Pages.
It exists to support them — and to remind us that behind every chart, document, and conclusion is a person trying to understand where they came from, and why it matters.
That’s reason enough to write it down.