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Research logs are also the best place to document your thinking and research strategies. Write lots of comments to yourself about your search strategies, suggestions, questions, and discrepancies you have noticed. | Research logs are also the best place to document your thinking and research strategies. Write lots of comments to yourself about your search strategies, suggestions, questions, and discrepancies you have noticed. | ||
== '''Family Group Records''' == | == '''Family Group Records''' == | ||
Compile a good family group record right at the start. Cite ALL the known sources for that family in footnotes tied to the events they document. Have at least one source footnote for every event mentioned on the family group record. Many sources include information about several events—link a footnote to every event mentioned in such sources. Use the footnote comments field to write a brief preliminary evaluation of the source. | Compile a [[Family_group_record:_roadmap_for_researchers|good family group record]] right at the start. Cite ALL the known sources for that family in footnotes tied to the events they document. Have at least one source footnote for every event mentioned on the family group record. Many sources include information about several events—link a footnote to every event mentioned in such sources. Use the footnote comments field to write a brief preliminary evaluation of the source. | ||
Add more than just birth, marriage, and death events on the family group record. [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|Add ALL the events]] including each census for each family member throughout their lives. Also include joining or leaving churches, confirmations, acquiring or sale of land, migrations, citizenship changes, jury duty, law suits, will probated, paid taxes, obituaries, mentioned in newspaper articles, new job, draft registration, military service, serving as a witness, bondsman, or godparent, working on the county road crew, jail, and warnings out. For all such events enter the date, place, [[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|cite your source]], and give a brief preliminary evaluation of that source on the family group record. | Add more than just birth, marriage, and death events on the family group record. [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|Add ALL the events]] including each census for each family member throughout their lives. Also include joining or leaving churches, confirmations, acquiring or sale of land, migrations, citizenship changes, jury duty, law suits, will probated, paid taxes, obituaries, mentioned in newspaper articles, new job, draft registration, military service, serving as a witness, bondsman, or godparent, working on the county road crew, jail, and warnings out. For all such events enter the date, place, [[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|cite your source]], and give a brief preliminary evaluation of that source on the family group record. | ||
Documenting as you go means adding new events and source footnotes as you research. Print the up-dated family group record frequently. | Documenting as you go means adding new events and source footnotes as you research. Print the up-dated family group record frequently. | ||
For some family situations it may also be good to summarize your findings and conclusions. Explain your reasoning and make a case for what you believe happened. For example, make a proof summary statement linking an immigrant ancestor’s records in the old and new worlds. | For some family situations it may also be good to summarize your findings and conclusions. Explain your reasoning and make a case for what you believe happened. For example, make a proof summary statement linking an immigrant ancestor’s records in the old and new worlds. | ||