You might be asking, if you are reading this, "what in the frilly heck is a genearchaeologist?" The truth is, it's just a portmanteau I made up, but it's also true regarding myself. My college major was in archaeological studies, and doing genealogy isn't a whole lot different. Just not as dirty.
In archaeology you deal with fragmentary evidence of a past civilization, and try to put together those fragments into some semblance of a narrative of human history. Genealogy is a lot like that, on a micro level. You're taking fragmentary evidence of the lives of your ancestors, often from a myriad of different sources and places, and cobbling those pieces together to form a narrative of their history - your personal human history. The basics in research methodology I learned while I was in school proved invaluable to improving my skills as a genealogist, and while I may not be working in that field today, I don't regret the things I learned.
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