More About the Family History Fair

Best Internet Websites:

Using Your Research Principles to Guide You

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(As adapted from the Website at FamilySearch Wiki: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Principles_of_Family_History_Research)

Step 1: Identify What You Know

Step 2: Decide What You Want to Learn

Step 3: Select Records to Search (What kind of a record type are you looking for? What kind of Record Type do you need)?

Step 4: Obtain and Search the Records

Step 5: Evaluate and Use the Information

For in depth info, go to the FamilySearch Wiki Link, above. 

  You are wondering how this pertains to Genealogical Websites, perhaps?!!

So....tell me why I begin here with this discussion...The Internet is a Forest or maybe a Jungle!  You could get lost or worse, dismayed and disoriented...perhaps even distracted if you slough this roadmap off!  You need a compass.  You need directions, a guide.

 
A List of Websites might open your eyes; notice that the wesbsite should be directed toward types of records that genealogists are wanting to find, based on what you already have.

Lets say this is what you know/don't know/still need to find out:

1.  We know that Obediah EDGE was born some time in 1828.  We need to find out if that date is correct.  What was happening in 1828 anyway?!!  And where was he born?  Who was his mother and father?  Did he have siblings?  When, where and who did he marry?  How do we know?  How do we find out?

Answers:   
 You may be an experienced researcher, but maybe you are brand new at online research.  My suggestion is get a free account at FamilySearch.org and see if the research has already been listed there in the ONE BIG FAMILY TREE.  

The goal at FamilySearch is that each and every individual shall be represented in one file folder, so to speak.  Various people can provide parts of the story, info about sourcing, etc.  Records will be cited, marriage records will be shown (the image), and discussions will be exchanged in an effort to resolve differences of opinions.  And we all live in a perfect well.  Well, let's see how this works.  (Go to familysearch.org at this time).  Find out what is known about Obediah Edge, born in 1828.