http://www.arleneeakle.com/wordpress/2006/11/10/the-big-lesson-loss-of-records-is-not-loss-of-ancestry/ Genealogy, tracing ancestors, writing family history, multiple streams of genealogy evidence Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:06:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.arleneeakle.com/wordpress/2006/11/10/the-big-lesson-loss-of-records-is-not-loss-of-ancestry/comment-page-1/#comment-36 DearMYRTLE Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:53:15 +0000 http://www.arleneeakle.com/wordpress/2006/11/10/the-big-lesson-loss-of-records-is-not-loss-of-ancestry/#comment-36 THANK-YOU, Arlene, for these last two thought-provoking articles. Beginning genealogists give up too quickly and do not consider alternative source documents. The same is true when one follows a migration pattern back in time to a different locality. If records aren't kept in the older area in the same format or similar jurisdictional archive, the fledgling assumes there are no records. Indeed, when encountering ancestors in ANY locality, one must do a thorough inventory to answer "Determine what records were kept.." THANK-YOU, Arlene, for these last two thought-provoking articles. Beginning genealogists give up too quickly and do not consider alternative source documents. The same is true when one follows a migration pattern back in time to a different locality. If records aren’t kept in the older area in the same format or similar jurisdictional archive, the fledgling assumes there are no records. Indeed, when encountering ancestors in ANY locality, one must do a thorough inventory to answer “Determine what records were kept..”

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