Before a document or record causes your research to spring forward into other sources or people, consider doing the following:

  • read the entire document;
  • make certain you understand all terms;
  • ask yourself “have I made any incorrect assumptions?”
  • make certain the records you have are really on the same person;
  • give yourself some time to let the new discovery “sink in.”

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