Analyse, assess & Mind the Gaps!
The Family Tree Academy is here to help you grow your genealogy skills. The aim is to help teach more about the search skills and source know-how needed to step up your family history research.
In this issue, Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal discusses some of the problems we may encounter when researching online and exhorts us to take an analytical look at the records, questioning everything, in order to keep our research on track
In the beginning
I’ve been involved in family history research for long enough to remember the days when everything you wanted to look at came in the form of a physical document and you had to go to a record office or a library to look at it.
I was there at the very beginnings of digitisation and I’ve watched it all develop over the past twenty years or so. I’m a big fan of the changes that digitisation has brought with it and I most definitely wouldn’t want to go back to the way things were.
The benefits are clear and
