The Biggest Genealogy Research Mistakes You Don't Want to Make

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 Vol. 21, No. 25 - March 30, 2016​​​

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The Biggest Genealogy Research Mistakes You Don't Want to Make
As a genealogist, you certainly want to be sure your research is accurate. Mistakes made in your work, whether you publish it or not, will be perpetuated throughout the generations by whoever uses your work as a reference. Not only that, but you want your work to be accurate for your own sake, too. If you are doing genealogy, you want to know you are getting the true stories of your ancestors lives. You also want to have confidence you are tracing the correct family lines. There is nothing more frustrating to a genealogist (other than a stubborn brick wall) than to spend months, or even years researching a family line, only to discover that a mistake was made somewhere and the line is not your own after all.

The good news is that genealogy mistakes can be avoided, and you can have the confidence you need to know your research is as accurate as it can be based on the information you've discovered. These are the biggest genealogy research mistakes and how you can avoid them...
 
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Federal Homestead Records and What You Might Find in Them
Did your ancestors homestead land in the United States? Millions of people did, so the chances of your ancestors being among them is quite high. Homesteading was the federal government’s way of encouraging people to move onto unused government land. It was mostly used for encouraging people to move west, though some land in the south was also available for homesteading.

The homesteading movement was strong from the mid-1800’s through the early 1900’s. You can still actually homestead land in some remote places, like Alaska, but it is a largely abandoned practice today, except for a hardy few. Still, if your ancestors were homesteaders back a few generations ago, you can potentially find out a lot about them through homestead records...
 
 
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