It’s not a test: I can have a cheat sheet.
It doesn’t matter if the name is common or not, there can easily be two of the same men in the same location with the same or very similar name.
Take John Herbert.
There were two of them in Hancock County, Illinois. One lived in Nauvoo and one lived near Warsaw initially and then moved closer to Hamilton, Illinois. The second one is the one I am interested in–he’s the one who was married in Fike, Bavaria, in 1851 to Anna Elisabeth Trautvetter and later married after her death.
While working on him and using FamilySearch’s full text search to locate materials in Hancock County, Illinois, records, I have to make certain I have the right John Herbert.
So I have a little cheat sheet with the name, year of birth, place of birth, name of spouse(s), townships of residence, and place/year of death for each one. There’s more details on each of them in my actual files, but the cheat sheet helps me to keep each one separate in my mind.
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