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you go ahead and make sure you look at all the research over
search or ancestry or any site for that matter. So, it pays to
go through the hints but once you've exhausted the hints, you
something to give me an extra clue to solve my questions and
the record collections that we were looking for. We were able
it didn't but was it time wasted trying to track down
to help me without parents or maybe the witnesses or just
can see the original record for G when filled a Wood? Well,
so hoping there'd be some extra information here on the record
here it's GW Underfoot Wood marrying Rhoda Kelly and I was
working to solve a little problem and all of a sudden, I
websites. After I began filming some of the information for
the same event show up on FamilySearch we will make
record even if it doesn't add anymore value to you you still
from when your ancestors were born married died or whatever
see the license the original license and the certificate
that original record when the information is the same that's
in an index? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Now, I know for
this case study, I did option number two. Check back later
Sometimes, they have the records that you want to see
another website. Find my past, my heritage, or dot com.
history center or an affiliate library, you know exactly what
choices. One, refresh the page. Sometimes it's just a little
fourth tip that I know some of my my FamilySearch fans will
So, when you come across those, make yourself a to-do list item
that says, check out this marriage record and be specific
check back later and number three, occasionally, there's an
the site better all of the time. So, sometimes you need to
other things but it pays to evaluate these records to see
found that marriage record but we still have more record to
search you will see view image on the hint pop out page on the
have to dig deeper and that will be the topic of the next
more accurately now when things are working correctly on family
my shoulder videos to follow along in the process but we
to find the original marriage record even though we had that
collection and I'm getting errors. Well, when errors
happen on FamilySearch or in any site, you have a couple of
So, ultimately, we were able to take one to-do list item on off
now we don't have time to go into why multiple records for
another video for that for the Family History Fanatic and when
Facebook. Twitter at FH Fanatics or Facebook, Family
to the tree but we want to keep looking for the original
talk about why there's so many about the same event in just a
sure certain there's no additional records on that
you're on the genealogy high, go ahead and check out those
that original record so always try to get to the original
this case we have one of those extracted records that we
talked about in a previous video and so this is about all
hiding out in their websites. So, if you're in a rush or
back and look at hint number three hint number three is once
if they are indeed about your ancestor and we're going to
is also clickable and we can see the original source but in
source linker and see if there's a clickable image link
marriage record but what if there was and we didn't go to
go. You never know what hints are going to come up on family
it goes live, we'll make sure we put it in the description.
IGI source from a previous video which why I should tell
about the relationship. So, when you go visit a family
are live sites in many of the engineers are working to make
hiccup in the internet service. Two, come back later. Um these
and sure enough, the family search engineers, they were
be kind of disappointed in. Sometimes, just go over to
record you want to pull up and view in those locations and a
second hint is another source dealing with Winfield and
the information we're going to get it is an index think of it
linker page and on this page I can review the details that
we get an error. Seriously, I'm try to evaluate the record
go to the source linker page and we click on the view image,
again marriage record or marriage source. Darn, I needed
at the top of the page like there is on this one let's go
now if you look at the top occasionally you will have a
profile that we saw when we click the hint on the profile
page and occasionally you will also have the word image that
when you're in a family history center or an affiliate library.
error metric that says, this collection can only be viewed
Rhoda's marriage hooray lots of sources about the same event
moment. So, stay tuned. Now, when we click on this link and
can't find the view image go ahead and click through the
so if you're watching this video in the future and you
person page but sometimes it's not there and I don't know why
map and using a modern map over here at Google. We can see just
in Cope than it did in Grayson but 46 miles is not that far
Kentucky to Grayson County, Texas. It pays to hop on to a
but this time the details page has Rhoda's last name spelled
the original record so we can go and attach this as a source
like an index to a book this is an index to the record but not
link that says record and if you click on it get that quick
detail and often I find that if I hit the attached record to
the tree button then I come over to what we call the source
were pulled off of that source and compare it to the right
where he lived in the courthouse in Grayson County
marriage record let's go and look at hint number two the
keep this clue. Now, those pieces of evidence tell me I
side which is what I have in my FamilySearch Family Tree right
probably go ahead and examine this record in a little more
County. Now, we know that Winfield moved from Taylor,
important thing. This particular map doesn't show you
County to get married because the courthouse was closer to
Kelly. Hm. Now, if you've watched a previous video, you
and it's also possible that was had easier loss to get married
someone just had a little trouble reading that last name.
know that in genealogy, spelling is fluid especially on
away in order to get married. So, we're going to go ahead and
questions. So if any of the hints answers those questions,
see that they're about 46 miles apart. Now, here's the
Underwood and Rhoda Keeley. Keeley? It's supposed to be
Underwood. He's married to he has a number of children and we
is entirely possible that it was easier to go over to Cope
where the boundaries were and where Winfield was living, it
entirely possible that K E E L Y is the same as K E L L Y,
with Underwood and wrote Kelly are getting married in Coate
have some research questions. What does the G and G Winfield
accuracy but you still need to review them and how do you do
where Coke County is and where Grayson County are in Texas. We
serve up as hints are pretty accurate maybe in the 90%
that? Before we go to the hints, let's make sure that we
research which I kind of like. They go after what we call
the hints that fam search found for us for G Winfield
The next thing I noticed is this marriage source says that
low-hanging fruits. Chances are that the records that they
Underwood. Now, FamilySearch likes to help you do your
documents not written in the hand of your ancestor. So, it's
we're good to go. Let's hop on over to FamilySearch and the
first hint we're going to see is a marriage source for GW
are G Winfield Underwood's parents and can we clean up his
does he have another child named Birdie? Hm lots of
I'm Devon Noel Lee and this is Family History Fanatics and our
it using my resources wisely? Well, I sure do and I have no
stand for? Who are his parents? Does he have a second wife and
know what we're looking for. We have a case of G Winfield
cards which will pop up during the video or in the
description. We are trying to investigate two questions. Who
any of the previous episodes, well, be sure to check the info
series called Research Over My Shoulder. If you have missed
tree along the way? In today's episode, we're going to look at problem admitting it which is why I love hints.
Do you like to be a little lazy? Or maybe you want to call
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