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== <span></span>'''<span>Organizing Principles</span>'''<span></span> == | == <span></span>'''<span>Organizing Principles</span>'''<span></span> == | ||
* <span><span><span></span></span></span>'''''<span>[[Document AS YOU GO!|Organize and document AS YOU GO!]]</span>'''''<span> | * <span><span><span></span></span></span>'''''<span>[[Document AS YOU GO!|Organize and document AS YOU GO!]]</span>'''''<span>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.</span> | ||
* <span><span><span></span></span></span>'''''<span>Hierarchy of research goals. </span>'''''<span>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.</span> | * <span><span><span></span></span></span>'''''<span>Hierarchy of research goals.</span>'''''<span>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.</span> | ||
* <span><span><span></span></span></span>'''''<span>Study families in community context.</span>'''''<span> Get to know the kin and neighbors and the roles they played in your ancestor’s family.</span>'''''<span></span>''''' | * <span><span><span></span></span></span>'''''<span>Study families in community context.</span>'''''<span>Get to know the kin and neighbors and the roles they played in your ancestor’s family.</span>'''''<span></span>''''' | ||
* <span><span><span></span></span></span>'''''<span>Research the easiest events first.</span>'''''<span> What you learn from easier documents will help you find more difficult to locate sources.</span>'''''<span></span>''''' | * <span><span><span></span></span></span>'''''<span>Research the easiest events first.</span>'''''<span>What you learn from easier documents will help you find more difficult to locate sources.</span>'''''<span></span>''''' | ||
* <span><span><span></span></span></span><span>Do NOT reorganize the way described below until you pick up research on a family—no mass reorganization of all files at once.</span> | * <span><span><span></span></span></span><span>Do NOT reorganize the way described below until you pick up research on a family—no mass reorganization of all files at once.</span> | ||
* <span><span><span></span></span></span><span>Do not be discouraged if you filing system is not perfect. We get better with experience.</span> | * <span><span><span></span></span></span><span>Do not be discouraged if you filing system is not perfect. We get better with experience.</span> | ||