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==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: 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. | *'''''[[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]] | ||
[[pt:Organizando Seus Arquivos]] | |||
[[es:Organice sus archivos]] | |||
[[Category:Beginners]] | [[Category:Beginners]] | ||
[[Category:Organizing_Records]] | [[Category:Organizing_Records]] | ||
[[Category:New to Genealogy]] | [[Category:New to Genealogy]] | ||