From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jul 24 11:36:17 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6OHaHjb023130; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:36:17 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6OHaFsg000652 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:36:15 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6OEvtFI015235 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:57:55 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6OEvtQB015234 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:57:55 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6OEhuFI015146 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:43:56 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6OHM7j3015832 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:22:07 -0600 X-Envelope-From: 4uswqp602@sneakemail.com Mon Jul 24 11:22:07 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6OHM7jb015823 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:22:07 -0600 Received: from monkey.sneakemail.com (sneakemail.com [38.113.6.61]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k6OHM51C021126 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:22:05 -0600 Received: (qmail 12357 invoked by uid 501); 24 Jul 2006 17:22:01 -0000 Received: (sneakemail censored 9976-75686 #1); 24 Jul 2006 17:22:01 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:21:58 -0700 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: "Bob" <4uswqp602@sneakemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200607240743.k6O7hNcn025058@lists5.rootsweb.com> References: <200607240743.k6O7hNcn025058@lists5.rootsweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9976-75686@sneakemail.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #314 ** Reply to message from "SUE ADAMS" on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:43:23 -0600 > How many records and what type do you use to verify genealogy? As much and as many as I can find. > I have several > lines which go back several generations. I'm afraid to start searching at the > ends, without verifying the original lines. Very good idea. I was given a line from my wife's cousin, that line had an error four generations back. Without doing the verification I would not have found the error and I would have passed on bad information to others researching the same family. > As a newbie, I'm also not sure what > to use as verification, beyond census records, or birth/death/marriage/probate > records. Get everything you can to make sure the records are correct. I was having a hard time tracing my wife's grandmother back to Sweden. I had found some of her brothers and sisters in Michigan and was getting their death records. The death record listed her brother as being 37 at death and I could not find anything in Sweden. After getting newspaper obituaries that did not have much but did list the Church I paid to have the Church records searched and found that they had his age at death as 49. With the new information I was able to find the family in Sweden. > If I were trying to verify one name, what steps would I go through? > Would I search census in several years, I try to get the census records for every year they were alive. > then check vital records, or church records? I try to get vital records for everyone and if available church records. > What do I ask myself? (Does this record list the same amount of > siblings, same parents, same country/county?) Country records for probate or > land records? It seems like I could be tied up in verification for years, > without pushing on into new territory. It depends on if the records are consistent about the information and if you can go back another generation. At the bare minimum I think birth, marriage, death, and census records are needed. Early records are a problem and you will not get all of those, then you use court records such as will and probate. > How do I balance new search and verification? For me they are the same. The thing with verification is you have information to start with which makes things much easier. > Have a set amount of time for each? There is never enough time. I just spent five days in Salt Lake look for the parents of Jacob Smith. The only thing I found was the full name of wife one and three (I knew this one but now have the documentation) and the first name of wife two, still not parents. After searching for Jacob in the 1850 census for many years I finally found him in Wisconsin listed as James which gave me the names of more children. None of this may help find his parents but it may, you never know what will connect to the next generation. -- Robert Blair