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==Value of Organizing Your Files== | ==Value of Organizing Your Files== | ||
Being organized helps you to better collate sources, compare them, evaluate them, identify discrepancies, and make reasonable conclusions. Well-documented family group records are the best source of ideas for research objectives. Up-to-date family group records also help you judge the reliability and fit of newly discovered sources with what you already know. The main value of organized research logs is to show all the sources you have searched, and help you recall your search purposes and strategies. Good logs help you resume research after a pause, and avoid re-using sources already tried. Too many negative searches on a research log show it is time to search in a different way. | Being organized helps you to better collate sources, compare them, evaluate them, identify discrepancies, and make reasonable conclusions. Well-documented family group records are the best source of ideas for research objectives. Up-to-date family group records also help you judge the reliability and fit of newly discovered sources with what you already know. The main value of organized research logs is to show all the sources you have searched, and help you recall your search purposes and strategies. Good logs help you resume research after a pause, and avoid re-using sources already tried. Too many negative searches on a research log show it is time to search in a different way. Investing the time required to be well organized will save time in the long run. | ||
==Organizing Principles== | ==Organizing Principles== | ||
*'''''[[Document AS YOU GO!|Organize and document AS YOU GO!]]''''' Before you start research have a research log and well-documented family group record in hand. After research do not lay your head on your pillow until you have finished your paper work and filing. | *'''''[[Document AS YOU GO!|Organize and document AS YOU GO!]]''''' Before you start research have a [[Research Logs|research log]] and well-documented [[Family group record: roadmap for researchers|family group record]] in hand. After research do not lay your head on your pillow until you have finished your paper work and filing. | ||
*'''''Hierarchy of research goals.''''' Have an overall goal to share your research findings with others. Thereunder have a goal to research a cluster of families—usually families that settled near each other. Thereunder have a goal to thoroughly document the events in one of those families before starting research on the next family. Have a goal to '''''understand''''' that family, and why they behaved as they did. Thereunder have an objective to document one event at a time in one person’s life in that family. If the first search fails, continue with that objective with different sources, jurisdictions, or repositories. Don’t give up until you find a source to document the selected event or exhaust all the possibilities trying. | *'''''Hierarchy of research goals.''''' Have an overall goal to share your research findings with others. Thereunder have a goal to research a cluster of families—usually families that settled near each other. Thereunder have a goal to thoroughly document the events in one of those families before starting research on the next family. Have a goal to '''''understand''''' that family, and why they behaved as they did. Thereunder have an objective to document one event at a time in one person’s life in that family. If the first search fails, continue with that objective with different sources, jurisdictions, or repositories. Don’t give up until you find a source to document the selected event or exhaust all the possibilities trying. | ||
*'''''[[Research a Family in Community Context|Study families in community context]].''''' Get to know the kin and neighbors and the roles they played in your ancestor’s family. | *'''''[[Research a Family in Community Context|Study families in community context]].''''' Get to know the kin and neighbors and the roles they played in your ancestor’s family. | ||
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[[What to do with the genealogy and family history I collected]] | [[What to do with the genealogy and family history I collected]] | ||
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[[Category:Beginners]] | [[Category:Beginners]] | ||
[[Category:Organizing_Records]] | [[Category:Organizing_Records]] | ||
[[Category:New to Genealogy]] | [[Category:New to Genealogy]] | ||