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eLearning Series: Geneology
My Family Tree is Important to Me
( 50 articles in this series )
Record
Your Family Historical Information
One of the most important parts of finding
your family genealogy is making sure that it is recorded. This
will help when future family members want to find specific
information about their family. It will also help you to know
exactly where you left off with recording your history, in
case you have to set the research aside for a certain amount
of time. By recording all of the historical information that
you find, it will help to let others know about the
facts that you found, instead of living off of the myths that have been
passed down.
One of the main reasons behind recording your historical information
is to be able to provide others with accurate information.
By beginning a search on your genealogy, others in the family
will be able to help with your mission of finding lineages.
Others in the family can review the information that you find
after they have found new resources. This will allow more information
to be retrieved about your lineage, as well as a sharing of
primary documentation with your family.
Once you have recorded information, future
family genealogists can then compare the validity of the information that you have
found. Many times, someone else in the family will be able
to fill in gaps or holes of information that you were not able
to find. By allowing them to be able to find the information
that you have, they can then compare their information and
add onto the history of the family. This will allow a more
accurate amount of historical information in relation to your
family lineage to be recorded and continuously added onto.
If the others in your family are beginning to take an interest
in the genealogy and history of their family, and didn’t before,
providing them with the sources that you have found will help
in giving them a jump-off point for their searches. This way,
they won’t have to put in any extra energy and search time
for information that has already been found. They will know
exactly where to go in order to begin their searches. By simply
recording where you went to find your information, you are
allowing others in the family to move further forward with
their searches, instead of having to retrace what you have
already done.
If you are not concerned about the future family genealogists
finding information in your family, then you should still record
your family history for references for future research that
you may want to do. This is especially important if you have
found a fact later on that is different than the assumptions
that have been made. At a later time, you can then go back
to the same source in order to find more information in relation
to the details. If you may have missed information, or need
a jumping-off point to get new information, having the recorded
information and location of what you found will make it easier
to find more detailed information later. This not only includes
valid information that you are using in relation to your genealogy,
but also the information or sites that did not include any
information that was true or of use to you.
When
you are documenting a source, you can use certain basic
principles to make sure that you have enough information down
for someone else to be able to trace the same information.
For books, this includes the title, author, publisher, date
published and page number. For recording a census, you can
include roll number, state, county, city, page number, and
family number. There are several sources available online that
will help you to keep an organized and detailed account of
the information and resources you are using. By doing this,
you can trace back to where you found the information from
before and allow others the same access to this information.
Tracing your family genealogy usually requires a large amount
of time to find the accurate resources and information about
your lineage. By giving others information on the resources
that you have found, it will make the recording of the lineage
become easier and much more accurate over a longer period of
time. It will also give others a jumping-off point when they
are finding out about their family. Providing resources and
information about what you have found out about your family
will help in creating an accurate genealogy.
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by SolveYourProblem.com
: 2006
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