Posted on 07/26/2024 12:47:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
I’ve been to LDS centers; So so information; best part is easily available; worst part is you can find someone had 32 children; they just tuck them all under the same person so reliability just isn’t there.
You can save your auto wear and tear by joining Family Tree Maker’s website. They have unbelievably massive files. Yes, mostly Protestant. But really good microfilm photos. I’ve done actual photos and I know how tough it is to get the books to lay flat and get decent photos.
Your cemetery project sounds EXCELLENT!! I like Find a Grave even though I find a lot of errors there, too. Kids just aren’t very interested in their grandparents and even parents. So when the time comes to fill in death certificates, it’s amazing how much bad info gets put in. Family legends end up as family facts.
Census data, for me, is most accurate when the person is a child. No one lies about the age of a 6 year old. But by the time the person hits 30, all bets are off as to what their real age is.
I started out concentrating on records, then got 4 different newspaper subscriptions. A lot of my research now is tracking multiple stories trying to find the few facts that can link the stories to show they’re about the same individual, since my family is replete with John Smith type names.
My grandfather, for example, was the eldest of his immediate family to die. It’s only by newspaper stories of his death and will that you learn he was cremated, then his ashes shipped home with his mother’s photo in the urn. The urn was then buried above his parents grave but he got no grave marker. I’ve called the cemetery that inherited the older cemetery records but minimal. Without the newspaper story, I wouldn’t know as much as I do.
“… we won’t have any DNA sequence left in our chromosomes from distant ancestors.”
We will have some DNA from distant ancestors, or we would be born chickens or rabbits.
“ We will have some DNA from distant ancestors, or we would be born chickens or rabbits.”
Um Kay.
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