In the past seven lessons, we have:

• discussed foundation skills for research
• gathered together our personal family history materials
• entered family names and vital data into their appropriate fields, so that our genealogy computer program could do most of the work of categorizing the information in order to help us recall minute details
• started to attach the evidence we had gathered to each of our events or our individuals

Now it is time to resolve conflicts, see what information others have, and decide what to do next. We do this by setting a goal.