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    AF-001: 5 Ways To Tell If Your Genealogy Research Is Accurate

    AF-001: 5 Ways To Tell If Your Genealogy Research Is Accurate

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    AF-001: 5 Ways To Tell If Your Genealogy Research Is Accurate

    FromAncestral Findings

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    Length:
    9 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 26, 2014
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    There is a lot of guesswork and uncertainty in genealogy. People in the past may have put the wrong information on old records, either from genuinely not knowing, or from having something they wanted to hide. Mistakes can be made in transcriptions of documents from one location to another; even tombstones are known to sometimes have mistakes on them from the stone cutter. Census takers make mistakes in the spellings of names (and even dates and places of birth of the householders they enumerate). Those who published family genealogies back in the 19th century, when this was a popular thing to do, often relied on legend, gossip, and the erroneous family stories other people gave them...
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    Released:
    Dec 26, 2014
    Format:
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    Genealogy is the most wonderful of pastimes. I love it, and you should, too. There are endless reasons why. Genealogy is one of the fastest growing hobbies in the western world, as more and more people discover the exhilarating and slightly addictive nature of ancestor hunting. It’s like an ongoing mystery with clues you have to discover and then put together to come to conclusions about your family’s past. The mystery never ends, because there is no end to the amount of time you can potentially go back in history with your family research. Yet, the more you can discover, the more complete picture of your family you can put together. It’s insanely rewarding, and the more you do it, the more you will want to do it. That’s a given...