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This is a wiki-list. Feel free to add more ideas as you think of them. Please help us ALL improve our skills by explaining what experienced genealogists do better. | This is a wiki-list. Feel free to add more ideas as you think of them. Please help us ALL improve our skills by explaining what experienced genealogists do better. | ||
== Rookies | == Rookies search individuals == | ||
Beginning researchers focus on themselves and their direct-line ancestry. When working on research goals, they look for single individuals. | |||
'''''Experienced researchers''''' know that everyone is part of a household, so they are part of their parents family group until they marry or create their own own household. By collecting information regarding all individuals (siblings and others living in household) more data points are available as evidence. | |||
== Rookies are poor note keepers <br> == | |||
Rookies are poor note keepers | |||
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Rookie family group records have meager source citations, and are limited to births, marriages, and deaths. Their research logs often consist of small slips of paper tucked into the pages of a spiral notebook. They have a tendency to make handwritten copies of sources. Their copies of sources are scattered and poorly organized. Finding a particular document may take 5 minutes or more. | Rookie family group records have meager source citations, and are limited to births, marriages, and deaths. Their research logs often consist of small slips of paper tucked into the pages of a spiral notebook. They have a tendency to make handwritten copies of sources. Their copies of sources are scattered and poorly organized. Finding a particular document may take 5 minutes or more. | ||