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'''Tips for beginners in Norwegian Research'''<br> | '''Tips for beginners in Norwegian Research'''<br> | ||
==== Understand Where You Have Checked ==== | ==== Understand Where You Have Checked ==== | ||
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As you gather and organize the information you have found it is important to evaluate what you have found. This is a lot easier if you have documented your sources during your research activities. Keep a good research log. Make sure you write down what you are trying to find, where you have looked, and what sources you have aready used. What type of records have you searched, and what time period the record covers | As you gather and organize the information you have found it is important to evaluate what you have found. This is a lot easier if you have documented your sources during your research activities. Keep a good research log. Make sure you write down what you are trying to find, where you have looked, and what sources you have aready used. What type of records have you searched, and what time period the record covers | ||
Record the film number, fiche number, book number, CD number or Web address of the site where informaiton was obtained, along with book, page, and entry number where applicable. The person following your tracks to get to that same information should need just a few minutes to do that, if you've done a good job of documenting!<br> | Record the film number, fiche number, book number, CD number or Web address of the site where informaiton was obtained, along with book, page, and entry number where applicable. The person following your tracks to get to that same information should need just a few minutes to do that, if you've done a good job of documenting!<br> | ||
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Watch Those Dates! <br>Europeans write dates in the order of day/month/year. For example, a date listed as 5/10 1820, would be the 5th of October, 1820, NOT the 10th of May, 1820. It's tricky and easy to make mistakes that will take you down the wrong path. | Watch Those Dates! <br>Europeans write dates in the order of day/month/year. For example, a date listed as 5/10 1820, would be the 5th of October, 1820, NOT the 10th of May, 1820. It's tricky and easy to make mistakes that will take you down the wrong path. | ||
Get in the habit in all your Norwegian research of writing dates with the number of the day, then the 3-4 letter abbreviation for the month, then the full year. If you do not do this, and are abstracting or extracting information from the records, you will at some point in time transpose the dates. You WILL send yourself off on an incorrect research path as a result. The names are so common in Norway you could possibly find someone with your transposed date even in the same parish, and take off researching a whole new line of ancestry - just not yours! | Get in the habit in all your Norwegian research of writing dates with the number of the day, then the 3-4 letter abbreviation for the month, then the full year. If you do not do this, and are abstracting or extracting information from the records, you will at some point in time transpose the dates. You WILL send yourself off on an incorrect research path as a result. The names are so common in Norway you could possibly find someone with your transposed date even in the same parish, and take off researching a whole new line of ancestry - just not yours! | ||
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