Many genealogists are self-trained and learn about sources and methods as their research progresses. Hands-on learning, directed towards your research goals is fine, but there can easily be gaps in knowledge when one learns this way. Have you read a general research how-to book or a guide to research in the areas where your families lived?
It’s still helpful to read how-to books and guides after you’ve researched for some time.
We all have something to learn? What have you learned recently?
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My most recent find was on “Google Books”. I learned that if you search for “Tax Lists” and a certain county, you can pull up volumes of the Pennsylvania Archives Series Three that has all sorts of interesting lists from the 1770s and 1780s. You have to know your county development, be3cause some counties are listed as townships in another county. Some of the lists are merely names in a township, with how much tax they paid, but others include number of acres, houses, horses, cattle, sheep, Negroes, and sometimes even occupations. I’m having a lot of fun looking at different ancestors in these books!