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VI - PROBLEM SOLVING
What to do about 'brick walls' FACET # 6.1 Beyond What Family Know (Beyond Oral History) |
Until this point, the Family Tree has been based on knowledge, which family members have provided, but this knowledge eventually terminates.
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FACET # 6.2 About Names
FACET # 6.3 The Surnames It is useful to know which Surnames occur more frequently than others, e.g. Smith, Brown, Jones, etc |
Those searching for or tracing family trees with the more frequently occurring surnames can do up to ten times more 'work' in making sure they are still 'climbing' their own family tree, e.g. all the sorings and provings, etc. If the family stayed in one place, tracing the family tree is so much easier!
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FACET # 6.4 Parish Locator
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It can help to know the names of the neighbouring parishes.
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FACET # 6.5 Legends & Folklore
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These are very important when all else may have failed. Some legends are better to work with than others. Often they need lateral thought.
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FACET # 6.6 Writing Cycle
FACET # 6.7 One Family, or Two |
Writing it up can be very useful especially when trying to clarify the situation. Often new avenues to try come from doing this.
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FACET #6.8 An Ancestor Revealed
FACET #6.9 Charting Your Sources |
It is not a Lucky Dip. Check the frequency of your Surname. Do not skip a step, e.g. once a marriage is found then the next move is to find that person's birth. Look at another kind of record (or two) to verify your findings before settling for the new information.
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.FACET # 6.10 The Hodge Family Tree
What is known to date. FACET # 6.11 A Possible Connection needing to be proved FACET # 6.12 Another Possible Connection needing to be proved |
Always collect information rather than just sift through it. Very often the missing piece is overlooked But if you have details to look through every now and again something may become suddenly relevant!
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FACET # 6.13 Extra-ordinary strategies
FACET # 6.14 Sifting and Sorting FACET # 6.15 Genealogical Directories FACET # 6.16 The One-Person Study FACET # 6.17 The Trial/Synthetic Tree i.e. a family tree synthesised from possible data found. |
MORE FACETS
Extra-ordinary strategies, sifting sorting - and the One-Person Study, together with the Trial/Synthetic Tree, i.e. a family tree synthesised from possible data found. |
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