Thursday, February 20, 2020

Are You Using FAN in your research, Plus Other Fun

F A N?!  = a research method.  It stands for family members, associates, and neighbors!  "One of the best ways to shed more light on an ancestor’s story or to get past what seems to be a brick wall is to delve into their “FAN club”, as Elizabeth Shown Mills aptly named it.1" 

FAN Club research, also called cluster research, is researching the people that cluster around your ancestor: friends, associates, and neighbors.

Check out some of the links below, to see what I'm talking about:
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