The Preliminary Survey Begins

According to Val Greenwood, in his book The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, when searching for information on an ancestor, we must first start with what other's have done. This is called the preliminary survey, or secondary research. The purpose of this review of others' work is to: ...find the answers to three significant questions: What…

Research Project, Sidney Wall(s)

So to start this journey, I'm beginning with a person that I think I have some good info on, but I put her history together in a shoddy manner and I want to go back through the records and make sure that I've properly documented everything as it needs to be. In this post, I'm…