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=== Introduction === | === Introduction === | ||
No matter what family history research experience you have in using primary and original records, and regardless of how many years you've been researching your family tree, this important checklist of Compiled Sources will help you conduct more thorough and comprehensive searches for finding compiled, and/or secondary sources on family lines. In most cases, family history seekers are guaranteed a pleasant surprise and will strike ‘gold’ by occasionally discovering already completed research on in-common ancestral family lineages. And because so many of the 'repositories' to such holdings are dynamic in that they are continually adding to their collections, it worthy of our time to return regularly to learn what new additions might turn to 'gold'. | No matter what family history research experience you have in using primary and original records, and regardless of how many years you've been researching your family tree, this important checklist of Compiled Sources will help you conduct more thorough and comprehensive searches for finding compiled, and/or secondary sources on family lines. In most cases, family history seekers are guaranteed a pleasant surprise and will strike ‘gold’ by occasionally discovering already completed research on in-common ancestral family lineages. And because so many of the 'repositories' to such holdings are dynamic in that they are continually adding to their collections, it worthy of our time to return regularly to learn what new additions might turn to 'gold'. | ||
In today’s world, orderly approaches to tracking and searching in all available compiled source databases has become a complex and unwieldy task! After a thorough scouring of home sources in closets, basements and attics—for family history memorabilia, copies of records, pictures, etc., you are now ready to embark in the next phase of your preliminary searches—for compiled sources. Compiled sources include published or deposited manuscript sources on families, pedigrees, biographies/autobiographies and local histories. | In today’s world, orderly approaches to tracking and searching in all available compiled source databases has become a complex and unwieldy task! After a thorough scouring of home sources in closets, basements and attics—for family history memorabilia, copies of records, pictures, etc., you are now ready to embark in the next phase of your preliminary searches—for compiled sources. Compiled sources include published or deposited manuscript sources on families, pedigrees, biographies/autobiographies and local histories. | ||
=== Compiled Sources === | === Compiled Sources === | ||