[I’m posting this notice on all my blogs–please forgive the cross posting as I rarely duplicate in this fashion.] All the content on this blog has been created by me. Errors, typos, and all. I don’t copy other people’s content–it’s illegal, it’s immoral, and it’s against the law. Copying content from others devalues their work and limits the ability of the creator of a work to earn what they can from that work. Typically those who blatantly violate the copyright of others are simply too lazy or too incompetent to create their own work. Of course people of that ilk usually don’t care about the person from whom they are copying. Using the material of others as your own is not flattery-it’s theft. If you want to flatter […]
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A burial location is a burial location, not a death location. In most cases, people do die near to where they are buried, but not always. The more recent the death, the easier it could have been to transport the body. In 1850 most people were buried near to where they died. In 2012, they could easily have not been. Don’t assume a person died in the state in which they are buried. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!
You may think divine providence caused you to obtain that picture of great-grandma or that family bible, but provenance is what we usually call the “chain of ownership” for a family relic or document. The provenance of a family heirloom shows how it came to us. It’s important to track as much of the provenance of an item as we can in order to know what we have is really what we think it is. The provenance for item indicates we know who the previous owners were and how we came to acquire the item ourselves. After all, is that great-grandpa’s hayhook, or did you just pick it up a farm sale? ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!
When searching for those elusive ancestors in databases, indexes, and other finding aids, remember that the person may be only listed with their initials. If the initials are difficult to read, the letters in the index may not even be “close” to the correct ones. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!
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