What helped me the most was slowing down and treating the whole thing like a long-term project instead of something to rush. I made a spreadsheet with relatives, dates, towns, and notes about where each piece of information came from, because memory alone just isn’t reliable. In my case, stories passed down in the family were partly true but often simplified, and that caused some wrong assumptions early on. I spent weeks thinking one ancestor didn’t qualify, only to later realize the timing of emigration actually worked in my favor. I used a mix of archive emails, social media groups, and one site I kept bookmarked,
dual citizenship lithuania, mainly because it explained common situations in plain language without making it feel like a sales pitch.
