How to Recognize your Canadian Ancestor: Difference between revisions

== Getting Started  ==

See the following time line for an example of known information:  

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Use an analysis chart to help you identify what you already know about your ancestor and to evaluate what that information may suggest. The following chart is a sample:  

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| MY ANCESTOR '''Analysis Chart''' for My Ancestor: Daniel Currie Hill

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| '''What Do I Know About My Ancestor?'''  

*Evaluate what that information may suggest.

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| POSSIBLE MATCH One Record Time Line for a Possible Match: Daniel Hill (name)

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Use an Analysis Chart to help you identify what you know about the possible match person and evaluate what that information may suggest. The following chart is a sample of an analysis chart:  

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| POSSIBLE MATCH '''Analysis Chart''' for a Single Record: Daniel Hill (name of person) Upper Canada Land Petitions (name of record)

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| '''What Do I Know About the Possible Match?'''  

*Check other records to see what the possible match person did after this record was made. Migration can be a good clue:

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*If the possible match person migrated to a new location, does that eliminate him or her because you have a burial record or other proof that your ancestor remained in the old location?  

*If the possible match person migrated to a new location, could this be your ancestor, and you did not know he or she had moved?

*Contact local and provincial libraries, societies, and archives.