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Another word of warning - Ancestry gives you hints from other people's trees if they are searching for the same people as you. Double, treble and quadruple check these before accepting them as they can be wrong.
Also, I keep paper records as well as storing info online as you end up needing multiple tabs open! There are lots of great blank family group/pedigree charts, research plans etc you can print out and update as you go along and have next to you as you research online.
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Doubleblue2 said:
Another word of warning - Ancestry gives you hints from other people's trees if they are searching for the same people as you. Double, treble and quadruple check these before accepting them as they can be wrong.
Also, I keep paper records as well as storing info online as you end up needing multiple tabs open! There are lots of great blank family group/pedigree charts, research plans etc you can print out and update as you go along and have next to you as you research online.
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I have been logging stuff into a spreadsheet for keeping notes.
Thanks for the tip regarding triple checking stuff based on others searching for the same person.
I have come across that scenario already. I don’t want to just accept it as gospel.
The whole tree is like a giant puzzle to solve, and that is the fun in it as well as finding interesting facts along the way.
Up to now I have discovered that my dad had 2 siblings who died before their first birthday.
I never knew that information at all.
 
I have noticed with the Ancestry hints that many trees given as hints have just pinched your data without much checking when you have been there a while and it is often from your own knowledge clearly not their relative but they have guessed it is.

So I echo the caution on the hints. Easy to go wrong as these people have. Be very sure before adding by checking it against your own sources.

Though the ones who do let you access their tree - as many do with non living relatives - can be seen at a glance if they are really your relative they have added that is new to you - once you have gone far enough to see the chains making sense.

Also if you do find a tree that looks to be linked to yours and they look to have done a lot of work check their visual materal - photos and the like. Can be nice surprises there.

I have found pictures of relatives none of my family knew existed that way and even street views of where they lived a century or more old stored by these other trees.
 
My advice is to get as much info as possible from relatives, I never paid for much I wasted money on Scots people because I didn’t have an address The relative lived in a pub on Sauchiehall Street it’s an enormous long Street, that’s when I searched Manchester churches and found the record.
Try all the free sites first, (Lancashire parish chest) church records are free on line.
Hibernia used to have Liverpool church records free online

The Mormon church records were free they had a reading room it was in Ashton under Lyme you can use the films if you
call them when it’s open. They don’t bother you at all it’s help yourself.
Family Search. Org used to be free on line.

Ancestry used to be free to search that’s when I lost interest because I wouldn’t pay.

There is a cupboard full of written research in my house because it was before I could use a computer.
 
I knew next to nothing for the same reason Colin. Not to mention my grandparents on one side had the (for genealogy searches) terrible names of Roberts and Taylor. So thousands of possibilities on offer every time I searched. Though a bit better than my best friend when I moved on to doing her tree which was all Smiths.

It takes time to get the breakthrough but is so exciting when you do, I found a lot of totally surprising links that way. Was worth doing as going back far enough I found a link to a quite famous Roberts that I never expected. Though it was quite a loose one.

Obviously an unusual name is much easier to search but the satisfaction of finding the right trail at last when there are many options makes that more worthwhile.
 
Another word of warning--- my maternal Aunt has been married to a massive rag for 58 years. Offered to research his maternal line for him as he knew nothing of that side.
My research of about 3 months has revealed that his second cousin is Stanley Clare Pearson who played for the rags from 1937/8 to 1954.
Great bloody player by all accounts.

In 35 years of researching my own line my lot have Jeffrey Archers prostitute of the infamous court case and a nutty in law who was tried at the Old Bailey for sabotage in 1940.

Sometimes it just isn't fair lol.
 
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