Do you have family photos that you have not digitized? Consider this a reminder from Mimke and Antje.
Some lines are arbitrary. Some lines are crossed intentionally and others are moved to where we passively cross them. As your research moves in time and place, ask yourself these questions? Have I crossed a political line? What was legal or acceptable practice on one side of the line may not be true on the other. Have I passed through a significant historical event? How did that impact my ancestral family? Have I changed religions? Record keeping practices may have changed. Church organizational structure may have changed. Am I at a new stage in a person’s life? Researching a child is different from researching a seventy-year old. Have I crossed an economic border? Researching a person who lives hand-to-mouth is different from researching someone for whom money really “isn’t […]
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