What to collect / search in the search for genealogy?
I know how things look on Ancestry.com and elsewhere, but I have decided looking at things and recording information in lists of tree means nothing really if you have no sources. I decided to start from now (my kids) and go back and collect the documents actually tie everyone together. So I wonder what most of you? I know that to obtain (or try all modes) the birth, death and land records, but what else can be kept to use as sources to prove that John Smith is the son of Nick Smith? Someone you have a good list out there? Wow, what a terrible question! You’ve discovered the most important thing in genealogical research – MAINTENANCE OF YOUR SOURCES! That’s a big step. Most people, myself included, do not figure this for a couple of years … until you look back at something and have to face “in where the heck did I come with that? “I just crazy 2 years of 22 years, but those 2 years, it still jumps and bites me occasionally. I am not a document great collector, so you get the original do
