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A list of rookie mistakes, their consequences, and | A list of rookie mistakes, their consequences, and how experience ''teaches you to do it better''. A self-improvement checklist. | ||
We love new family history researchers. They add enthusiasm and idealism to our community. We offer this list to help them. | We love new family history researchers. They add enthusiasm and idealism to our community. We offer this list to help them. | ||
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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 search individuals == | == Rookies search individuals == | ||
Beginning researchers focus on themselves and their direct-line ancestry. When working on research goals, they look for single individuals. | Beginning researchers focus on themselves and their direct-line ancestry. When working on research goals, they look for single individuals. | ||
'''''Experienced researchers''''' know that everyone is part of a household, so they are part of their parents family group until they marry or create their own own household. By collecting information regarding all individuals (siblings and others living in household) more data points are available as evidence. | '''''Experienced researchers''''' know that everyone is part of a household, so they are part of their parents family group until they marry or create their own own household. By collecting information regarding all individuals (siblings and others living in household) more data points are available as evidence. | ||
== Rookies are poor note keepers <br> == | == Rookies are poor note keepers <br> == | ||
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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> == | ||
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[[Category:Beginners]] | [[Category:Beginners]] | ||