I read a bunch of other blogs. One of my favorites is “The Ancestry Insider.” He used to work at Ancestry.com but now works at Family Search. The ‘Insider’ has been running a series of postings about Citations; ie. recording the sources that you have for your information. He is planning a few more postings …
I use RootsMagic as my genealogy program to store my family data that I have collected over the last 35 years. RootsMagic and all of the better genealogy programs have a built in method to check your family data for common errors. It has been a while since I checked my family data. So I …
Site your sources of genealogical information. This is a case of don’t do as I did; do as I say. When I started doing my family history about 1976 I would make copies when I could but many books couldn’t be copied because they were too old or too fragile. So I would hand write …