Extracting Information - Getting the Most From Genealogical Sources
- Organize your information and analyze what records you need
- Categories of documents and what you'll find there
- Where and how to locate genealogical documents
- Recognizing valid sources
- Source citation: boring but necessary
- The challenges of incorrect information
- Reading and understanding U.S. records:
- Why they were produced and by what entity
- Censuses: each one unique and useful, the best place to start a search
- US Military Records, Immigration & Naturalization, Passenger Lists, Census Schedules
- Understanding the information in U.S. records and knowing what to do with it
- Knowing what laws, if any, governed the data
- Is information missing? That's important too.
- Why they were produced and by what entity
- Analysis, comparisons and conclusions - the key to accurate research
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