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This is a wiki-list. Feel free to add more ideas as you think of them. Please help us ALL improve our skills by explaining what experienced genealogists do better. | This is a wiki-list. Feel free to add more ideas as you think of them. Please help us ALL improve our skills by explaining what experienced genealogists do better. | ||
== Rookies are poor note keepers == | == Rookies are poor note keepers <br> == | ||
== <pre>Rookies for single individuals. | |||
Most documents contain relationships. An individual is part of their parent's family group sheet until marriage or their own household is established. Including siblings in a search makes the research easier and provides validation. | |||
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Rookies are poor note keepers | |||
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Rookie family group records have meager source citations, and are limited to births, marriages, and deaths. Their research logs often consist of small slips of paper tucked into the pages of a spiral notebook. They have a tendency to make handwritten copies of sources. Their copies of sources are scattered and poorly organized. Finding a particular document may take 5 minutes or more. | Rookie family group records have meager source citations, and are limited to births, marriages, and deaths. Their research logs often consist of small slips of paper tucked into the pages of a spiral notebook. They have a tendency to make handwritten copies of sources. Their copies of sources are scattered and poorly organized. Finding a particular document may take 5 minutes or more. | ||
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'''''Consequences:''''' Poor organization and note keeping often results in redundant searches, missed documents, overlooked clues, poor correlation and analysis, incorrect conclusions, dead ends, and false connections. | '''''Consequences:''''' Poor organization and note keeping often results in redundant searches, missed documents, overlooked clues, poor correlation and analysis, incorrect conclusions, dead ends, and false connections. | ||
'''''Experienced researchers''''' [[Document AS YOU GO!|document '''as they go''']], keeping up-to-date, well-[[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|sourced and footnoted]] family group records, along with [[Research Logs|research logs]]. Veterans make [[Copying Sources|photocopies of sources]] whenever allowed by the repository. They [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|add all events]] including things like each census, military service, and family moves to their [[Family group record: roadmap for researchers|family group records]]. They are [[Organizing Your Files|well organized]]. Thanks to their research log they can have any document copy about the family in their hand in moments. They use their records, especially the family group record, as their best source of ideas about where to search next because of all the clues they have packed onto it. They use their research logs to document their research strategies as well as the sources searched. | '''''Experienced researchers''''' [[Document AS YOU GO!|document '''as they go''']], keeping up-to-date, well-[[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|sourced and footnoted]] family group records, along with [[Research Logs|research logs]]. Veterans make [[Copying Sources|photocopies of sources]] whenever allowed by the repository. They [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|add all events]] including things like each census, military service, and family moves to their [[Family group record: roadmap for researchers|family group records]]. They are [[Organizing Your Files|well organized]]. Thanks to their research log they can have any document copy about the family in their hand in moments. They use their records, especially the family group record, as their best source of ideas about where to search next because of all the clues they have packed onto it. They use their research logs to document their research strategies as well as the sources searched. | ||
== Rookies jump to conclusions which aren't supported by evidence<br> == | == Rookies jump to conclusions which aren't supported by evidence<br> == | ||