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=== '''''<span>3. More recent versus earlier events</span>''''' === | === '''''<span>3. More recent versus earlier events</span>''''' === | ||
=== '''''<span>4. Quality of available documents</span> | === '''''<span>4. Quality of available documents</span>''''' === | ||
(See the ''original'' source with your ''own'' eyes wherever possible.) | |||
* | * Vital Records/ Town Records/ Civil Registration | ||
* | * Church Records | ||
* | * Bible | ||
* | * Census | ||
* | * Land and Property | ||
* | * Probate Records | ||
* | * Social Security Death Index/ tombstones/ cemetery records/ funeral home records | ||
* | * Obituaries/Newspapers | ||
* | * Military Records | ||
* | * Internet images of original documents | ||
* | * Internet transcript based on an original | ||
* | * Biographies/ Genealogies/ Histories/ Periodicals/ Society | ||
''Figure 1. On the following family record which event would be the easiest, and which the hardest to research?''[[Image:GuessingWhereToStartExample.png]] | ''Figure 1. On the following family record which event would be the easiest, and which the hardest to research?''[[Image:GuessingWhereToStartExample.png]] | ||
On this family group record the easiest to research event would be the birth of the the oldest child, Genevieve, because (a) it has a good source footnote, and (b) it has an exact date and a complete place. The hardest to research event would be the birth of the husband, Alexander, which has no source, no date, and only the most vague place for the event.<br> | On this family group record the easiest to research event would be the birth of the the oldest child, Genevieve, because (a) it has a good source footnote, and (b) it has an exact date and a complete place. The hardest to research event would be the birth of the husband, Alexander, which has no source, no date, and only the most vague place for the event.<br> <!--{12033514910781} --> | ||
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