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 ==== Using a library catalog<br>  ====
 Statistically, there are bound to be inaccuracies in any library catalog or finding tool. It may not describe a record fully or accurately. For example, if births and deaths appear to be filmed completely, but marriages aren’t listed, check the films anyway. You may be lucky and find that the marriages are actually included as well.<br>
 *If there are several sets of records for the same time period, check them all and try to figure out the difference. The films may include originals and transcripts of various types, or Lutheran and Reformed records may be filmed together. Sometimes church records and contemporary civil records [especially around 1800] are filmed together, but not distinguished in the catalog entry.
-*Entries that have been edited recently may not show up in the Catalog. If you can no longer find a record that you know was previously there, ask a reference consultant to check the master catalog.
+*Entries that have been edited recently may not show up in the Catalog. If you can no longer find a record that you know was previously there, ask a reference consultant to check the master catalog.<br>
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+==== Common <u>false </u>assumptions<br> ====
+Some common false assumptions [the opposite tends to be true]:<br>
+*Most couples were married when their first child was born [illegitimacy rates varied by time period and locality, but tended to be around 10 %]
+*People usually married young [Many states passed laws requiring minimum ages at marriage in order to curtail population growth among the lower classes.]
+*People didn’t move around much. [That depends on the local economy.]
+*A person will always be recorded with the same first and last names. [This also depends on local customs.]
+*A cross in the baptismal record means that the child died young.
+*Ages given in death records are usually correct. [Ages are flexible. Variations of up to five years either way, more for very old individuals, are normal.]
+*Notations in original records are always correct.
+*Family books are usually complete and correct. [For instance, they may be missing several children that died young.]<br>
+Search and ''Re''search!<br>
+*When you have a larger-than normal gap between children, re-check the baptismal records. Double-check records often.
+*Re-do work you did when you first began doing research.
+*Re-check records after new information has shed a different light on things.<br><br>
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