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*'''''[[Document AS YOU GO!|Organize and document AS YOU GO!]]''''' Before you start research have a research log and well-documented family group record in hand. After research do not lay your head on your pillow until you have finished your paper work and filing. | *'''''[[Document AS YOU GO!|Organize and document AS YOU GO!]]''''' Before you start research have a research log and well-documented family group record in hand. After research do not lay your head on your pillow until you have finished your paper work and filing. | ||
*'''''Hierarchy of research goals.''''' Have an overall goal to share your research findings with others. There under have a goal to research a cluster of families—usually families that settled near each other. There under have a goal to thoroughly document the events in one of those families before starting research on the next family. Have a goal to '''''understand''''' that family, and why they behaved as they did. There under have an objective to document one event at a time in one person’s life in that family. If the first search fails, continue with that objective with different sources, jurisdictions, or repositories. Don’t give up until you find a source to document the selected event or exhaust all the possibilities trying. | *'''''Hierarchy of research goals.''''' Have an overall goal to share your research findings with others. There under have a goal to research a cluster of families—usually families that settled near each other. There under have a goal to thoroughly document the events in one of those families before starting research on the next family. Have a goal to '''''understand''''' that family, and why they behaved as they did. There under have an objective to document one event at a time in one person’s life in that family. If the first search fails, continue with that objective with different sources, jurisdictions, or repositories. Don’t give up until you find a source to document the selected event or exhaust all the possibilities trying. | ||
*'''''[[Research_a_Family_in_Community_Context|Study families in community context]].''''' Get to know the kin and neighbors and the roles they played in your ancestor’s family. | *'''''[[Research_a_Family_in_Community_Context|Study families in community context]].''''' Get to know the kin and neighbors and the roles they played in your ancestor’s family. | ||
*'''''Research the easiest events first.''''' What you learn from easier documents will help you find more difficult to locate sources. | *'''''Research the easiest events first.''''' What you learn from easier documents will help you find more difficult to locate sources. | ||
*Do NOT reorganize the way described below until you pick up research on a family—no mass reorganization of all files at once. | *Do NOT reorganize the way described below until you pick up research on a family—no mass reorganization of all files at once. | ||
*Do not be discouraged if you filing system is not perfect. We get better with experience. | *Do not be discouraged if you filing system is not perfect. We get better with experience. | ||