So, here we are in the new year and I haven't written a post about my resolutions. That's mainly because my resolution for 2014 was decided for me by an email from someone who'd seen one of my trees on Ancestry. It showed me quite clearly the way forward.....
Which is to check, check and check again. Back when I was a baby genealogist I didn't seem to bother with sources, being more interested in simply logging the information I was finding. This is now coming back to bite me; apart from offending my reasonably tidy mind, it also caused much embarrassment when the aforementioned contact asked me where I'd found a set of christening dates.
The precision of them suggested that I'd got them from the parish register, rather than a compiled index.. The particular village is not on the IGI so I must've been to the Records Office for them. But I didn't write it down so I have no idea.
So I'm off to Huntingdon again tomorrow in the hope of a seat in their archives searchroom so I can look again at the parish register and, this time, note that I have done!!
On the positive side, I'm looking to keep in touch with some new contacts I made last year and lunch has just been arranged with my sister & I and our "new" cousins. Excellent.
Happy hunting in 2014.
More soon.
1 comment:
I have to admit, I have put off adding my tree online anywhere, as I haven't added all the sources I have gathered, and don't want to be caught out if asked and have to say "I don't know".
Hope you find what you need.
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