Beginning genealogy are often very happy to find family trees going back several generations more grandparents or great grandparents. WOW - there are names, approximate birth years and more details. It fills in your family on one side of your family line immediately. Grand - now you can brush your hands off and get more information for any other lines of your families.
But wait a minute here before copy or merge the new tree with your family.How can you be certain that these ancestors are truly yours? what details are even correct?
You can find - as I - that a family tree online had the wrong Grandma-grand mine family line. This error means that many other people had copied the incorrect information in their own family trees, adding multiple generations of poor ancestors. Whoops! How did you know that this was an error? Because we had a family history family female grandfather large with a "Grover" as the name of several generations back girl... more he had completely different names first families in my family line.Find more online, details of marriages and it became clear causing family line my great grandmother: Buell, step Doolittle.En ranging upwards and downwards and then the family line, I was able to confirm detail after detail of documents and records, more nécrologiques, in order to ensure the accuracy of my results. As you can imagine, I have learned a lot with this research project!
One of the things you will be watching the trees online strike, is that many people copy simply a personne.Il family tree can be 15 family trees all say exactly the same thing on names, dates / locations... But that may be the result of 14 copies of an original. The fact that there are many copies does not make the original, true!
How can you know if this richness of details that you have found is correct for your family tree? there is only one way: check each of the original if possible with source details. An excellent source could be records of birth (Government or church) that list both parents, including the mother's maiden name. Other sources can include the following: gravestones, registers of the churches, records, census over several decades, pension or marriage records that can also list the names of parents and the birthplaces or residences of both parties. Once you are at the beginning of the 19th century or before this date, it can be quite difficult to find sources, but keep digging and you'll find a treasure.
At times, or may be published historical genealogies of individual cities or villages that detail some of your ancêtres.Comme stories were often written about 80-100 years or more after the fact, drawn from sources that you will not be able to find or read, you will need to take into account the secondary sources that will have even more than verification. At the end of the 1800s in the United States, for example, family genealogies became very popular and many families were "professional" write their family tree in detail. Some of them are very well documented and used sources are detailed in the published documents. Others are based on hearsay and conjecture and contain numerous errors. The other back in time, most likely from there are errors of different types.
For example, in a family of mine line, there are many men Grover Buell, generation after generation, through the brothers and sisters, and side-lines. Many of them, born close in time and place, that some stories have condensed more of them into one, think that "someone" made a mistake with dates, etc. I had to list each and every one of them to make sure that I have "my" Buell Grover search! Fortunately, others have been part of thus research and share their results online. We shared stone inscriptions conclusion with the right person and his wife and rolls of tax documents and much more.Online, the "cousins" are so useful!
Who said about the pitfalls, there are often very specific family tree online, which have been studied well and have source material connected with people in the trees.For example, a story published details when an ancestor first have a newly carved in Connecticut, the names of his sons, and their age at the time, described village its occupation in time and the names of his daughters married. WOW - what a search! and there are additional details that are in the Church in the village of each person registers marriages, children, death, the burials. Yet a few photographs of tombstone. Confirmation details is so exciting!
One of my lines joined with a well known name family line which had been studied so intensive.Comme first name organization families had initial sources and verified information, I was able to merge accurately and safely with the descendants of this ancestor.For the challenge, I always sought through the hotline to ensure that in fact the family tree worked in both directions, up and down, and there were primary sources to support details.Yes this was the case, and I was delighted to find so much interesting information about this family line.
If you find a family tree line which merges with one of your line, take the time to write the person who grabbed her details, requesting their research or information sources.Several times, I got a response of "I can't remember where I found this information, but it was somewhere online" dear .Oh.Now, you will need to be very creative, locate those records.Of course, that will remind you you must make certain that if you find a source for more details, you will be copying the source address and the Web page in the record of the individual for future reference.
As you can see, ago wonderful finding online opportunities for more than information généalogique.Et tree, of course, ago so difficult challenges u.n. ' never use trees as "sources" for the details of your family tree online: they must be regarded as provisional guidelines for your additional searches instead of cela.Une times that you can check the details with other documents and sources, you will be able to cite those sources for further research on the same line as your familiales.Plus ancestors you can be sure of the accuracy of your happy généalogique.Recherche tree.
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