Sometimes a clue is not a clue the first time you see it.<\/p>\n
I had used a deed as a sample in my early years of teaching genealogy classes. After a few years, I switched it out in place of a different example. Several years later, I switched back to the earlier example, not really reading it but just putting it in.<\/p>\n
I read again as I lectured about it and then I stopped. The purchaser of the land in question was an ancestor–the reason I had copied it. Now years later, I stopped and looked at the name of the seller. It was my ancestor’s first cousin who had “evaporated” in Ohio. Here he was in Illinois selling land to my ancestor.<\/p>\n
Now I know to look closely at all the names on any deed where an ancestor buys or sells property. I didn’t know that when I was starting my research.<\/p>\n
How many things did you find early in your research that have not been re-analyzed?<\/p>\n