How to Find Descendants in the United States: Difference between revisions

'''''It may be harder.''''' Some genealogists consider descendancy research more difficult than pedigree research. This is because finding children is usually more difficult than finding parents. There are always exactly two parents of each child, but the number of children of each set of parents can vary widely. Moreover, there tends to be more documents that are likely to name the parents of a child, and fewer documents that list all the children of a set of parents.

'''''It may increase the chances of an error.''''' Descendancy researchers are sometimes trying to prove their relationship to a famous ancestor. When celebrity is involved, there is a greater temptation to make linkage decisions than cannot be proved.<br>