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-How to figure out the place to search when documenting an event in an ancestor's life. Use the places already on the family group record as a guide.
+[[How to Guess Where to Start|How to Guess Where to Start]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Guessing_a_Place|Guessing a Place]] <br>
-In order to document an event a researcher must sometimes guess the place where the event happened.
+How to figure out the place to search when documenting an event in an ancestor's life. Use the places already on the family group record as a guide.
-Look at the places already shown on a family group record to identify the most likely places for additional events.
+In order to document an event a researcher must sometimes guess the place where the event happened.
-* <span>In order to determine the place to look first, look at the dates and places of known events closest to the date of the event you want to find.</span><span></span>
+Look at the places already shown on a family group record to identify the most likely places for additional events.
-* <span>Look up each family member in all '''censuses''', tax lists, land records, and directories during their lifetimes in order to pin down places where they lived in specific years. [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|Add each of these events to the family group record]].</span><span></span>
-* <span></span><span>The most likely place for a child’s birth is the place where the parents were married.</span>
-* <span></span><span>The most likely place for a marriage is (1) the residence of the bride’s mother, or (2) the birthplace of the oldest child.</span>
-* <span></span><span>The most likely place for a person’s death is (1) where the youngest child was born, or (2) at the residence of one of the children.</span>
-* <span></span><span>The most likely place for a burial is near the grave of a spouse.</span>
-* <span>An obituary often summarizes a person’s life. It gives hints about places where key events occurred. It may list the residence of surviving family members.</span>
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+*<span>In order to determine the place to look first, look at the dates and places of known events closest to the date of the event you want to find.</span><span />
+*<span>Look up each family member in all '''censuses''', tax lists, land records, and directories during their lifetimes in order to pin down places where they lived in specific years. [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|Add each of these events to the family group record]].</span><span />
+*<span /><span>The most likely place for a child’s birth is the place where the parents were married.</span>
+*<span /><span>The most likely place for a marriage is (1) the residence of the bride’s mother, or (2) the birthplace of the oldest child.</span>
+*<span /><span>The most likely place for a person’s death is (1) where the youngest child was born, or (2) at the residence of one of the children.</span>
+*<span /><span>The most likely place for a burial is near the grave of a spouse.</span>
+*<span>An obituary often summarizes a person’s life. It gives hints about places where key events occurred. It may list the residence of surviving family members.</span>
-[[How to Guess Where to Start]]
+=== Related Content  ===
+[[How to Guess Where to Start]]
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