Documenting your search process is key to analyzing and understanding what has been located and in knowing that there might be more to find.
If you have a DNA match with whom you suspect the genealogical connection and that match has an incomplete tree, do you stop researching three when you find the first connection consistent with your theory of how you connect?
Or do you research the tree further?
If I suspect that the match is connected to me on my Neill family and that we are related around the great-great-grandparent generation for that match, do I quit after I find a Neill connection in that tree even through at least half the tree is incomplete at the great-great-grandparent generation?
If you quit (and there are valid reasons for doing so), you should include that in your notes:
The tree was only partially researched until the suspected connection was found. The maternal grandmother’s portion of the tree (or whatever part) was not researched further because she was of Russian origin and the DNA connection was through my Irish family (or whatever the reason).
At least later you will know why.
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