![]() Marriage licenses, birth records, and death certificates are a fundamental part of this. It isn’t good enough to just type out everything you think you know you need the records that support what you know. ![]() Start with What You KnowĪs I talk about in my guide to getting started in genealogy, start with what you know about the question you’re trying to answer. So figure out what your goal is, write it down, and move onto the next step of identifying what you already know. While you will eventually have several goals, it’s important to keep focused on one at a time. There are a lot of research questions that need to be created to help achieve that goal. So a goal for me might be something like tracking my McDermott branch back to Ireland. I think of goals in my research as a set of research questions about a specific family or branch of my family tree. What are you trying to accomplish and how do you plan to get there? The first step in any project is always to identify your goal. Published with permission from Mark Tucker, the creator of this graphic. Here is a fantastic illustration to help visualize this process ( click here to enlarge):
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