I am in the process of analyzing my sources and preparing the findings for reporting, and I am still waiting on interviewing some people. Therefore, I am not going to analyze any sources right now.
Annnnnyway, I made a "huge" discovery for my family history on Friday when I had just a few minutes to troll around the internet. I am an addict of Ancestry.com, I must admit. You get it free on campus with BYU's internet service, since BYU, or at least the BYU Family History Library, has some sort of deal with Ancestry.com. Normally a subscription would cost like $150.00 a year, so I'm very grateful. Anyway, there are all kinds of census, military, immigration, and other records. My dad is half Lithuanian and half Irish, and he is the only "Mormon" in his family. Therefore, there is tons of work to be done on his side of the family. I always had some mild interest in genealogy, but I have really been working hard since about May last year. I have found several records since then which have helped me, but I had always been troubled by the fact that I could not find the passenger manifest/shiplist of the boat my great-grandfather took to come to the US. He and his wife were from Lithuania, but they took different ships to get here. I knew what boat he took and when it arrived from his personal account, but I never found the actual list. I found it, finally, and it has very valuable info on it, like his closest contact in the old country, the address and name of the person he was going to stay with in the US, and other stuff. I was very excited, to say the least. He listed the name of his brother-in-law on the document and his address. I can use that to find the family on the census record for the following year, and thence I will find the name of my long-lost great-great aunt, his sister, (whose name I do not know) and maybe her children, if she had any. This is great, because for over twenty years (when my parents dabbled in family history and tried to get info with moderate success) we have been at a literal standstill in regards to my great-grandfather's family.