you go. That was seven common genealogy mistakes and how to
fix them. Do you know of any other common mistakes that we
name doesn't mean that you're actually related to the person.
famous Lee's you might know Harold B Lee Robert E Lee Sarah
confusing. So if you don't want to confuse people and get angry
Johnson then took upon the Johnson name. This is
married Tom Johnson or a Mary something who married Tom
because it'll confuse genealogist who are searching
name where the maiden name should be now sometimes the
where you got the information number six putting the married
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last name such as Geisler, just because you share the same last
attach the source to your ancestor so always attach your
more common in offline genealogy when people just say,
those sources are good sources because otherwise, you might
actually be connected to these trees but the problem is some
they're not but the best way to make sure that you don't make
initial looking at the record. So, Sometimes your snap
for the additional clues that don't exactly pop out with your
not all of them are related but even if you have a more unique
at least through the Lee line because you see my great great
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that we might be able to make a common mistakes part two. If
in reality her her married maiden name is Sue if you keep
this Mary Sue person if you put Mary Johnson they'll be
searching for a Mary Johnson you're never going to find Mary
figure it out. There's a lot of Smiths and Jones out there and
related to any famous Lees at all but perhaps your surname
grandfather changed his name from Garnet because his dad was
a common last name like Smith or Jones, you can kind of
to a famous person or anyone who shares your last name.
the surname field. Number seven. Assuming you're related
stayed the same as for as far back as you can go if you have
a bank robber and also a vampire at one point so I'm not
Lee Bread Company I'm not related to any of those people
Let's take the example of the surname Lee. Mine. Uh think of
confused saying wait is this Mary Johnson a Mary Johnson who
letters in the mail make sure to get the married name out of
Sue and her family when she was not married this is a problem
families start to start starts searching for Mary Johnson when
put their married name into the surname field why because then
the tree. Make sure that it's properly sourced. Make sure
sources and if you're doing offline make sure to write down
married name is all you have of a woman but you still shouldn't
couple months later, where did I get this birth date again? Uh
and it's easier to not do this in online trees such as
ancestry family search when it's really simple you just
birth record, I'll take the birth date and go away. A
of them aren't entirely properly sourced. The thing to
Four, relying on other people's trees and this is a big one.
Ancestry. com has a lot of trees made by its members might
that's not good. Number 5, not citing your sources. This is
actually come up to a tree that's full of baloney and
do here is trust but verify. Go through and I guess evaluate
mistakes like that is you properly evaluate your sources.
decisions are actually going to be correct and sometimes
evaluate the sources properly. To do that, you have to look
it. That does not look about to be my ancestor. We'll not add
that. It's not like that. It's not that easy. We have to
connected to the first two. People will look at a record
and say that looks to be about my ancestor. Sure, we'll add
three, jumping to conclusions and this is something that is
ancestor didn't quite recall when their birthday was. Number
just trying to take a good guess and sometimes, The
as this record and again, this isn't true. Sometimes, again,
the informant may have misheard it or not known it and they're
oh three. So, therefore, this record is not the same person
ancestor didn't know how to properly spell their name or
oh, this record says the birthday was the fifteenth of
exact dates and this one is kind of similar. People say,
May 18 oh five whereas this one says fifteenth of May eighteen
separate. Well, no. You see, sometimes the person writing
they may have misspelled it accidentally. Mistake number 2,
down the name misheard ancestor. Sometimes, the
variations. It's a good one you should check it out but
basically, some people think, hey, this family spells her
without E. So therefore, these two families are completely
name B R O W N E whereas this one spells their name B R O W N
name. We actually did a video about this about name
right into it with mistake number one. One spelling for a
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most common genealogical mistakes and how to fix them.
we're just at starting out with something. So, here are seven conferences.
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