It's becoming a stamp collection

[Phoenix]

I do enjoy family history, but I'm finding myself doing the tree the Ancestry way: ooh look, another ancestor: snap!

Not only is this ultimately deeply unsatisfying, but it's wrong. I'm contemplating a 1764 marriage in Lincolnshire for a couple whose apparent eldest child is born in Norfolk in 1773. Not impossible, but deeply improbable.

What do you do when research starts to feel trivial?