When I first started doing research on my family over 20 years ago, the first thing I was told was to document where you got everything somewhere on the paper incase you had to go back to that for a reference. I thought pretty good idea. I did not do it always but it made a lot of sense in case you had to prove something.

Then I took upon myself if I were in a particular area I would copy everything from that area with the name I was researching whether I needed it or not. I have found over the years that YES I NEEDED IT to put the puzzle together or someone else did.  I am glad I did that.

Also another point  of interest I was told. Back long time ago the first male child was named after the Father’s father and the first female child was usually named after the Mother’s mother. That has helped me alot in my research.  Sometimes this has proved true and sometimes not. But this

These are just some tidbits from me. I don’t know if these still hold true today but this is how I work.