Revisiting My Roots: Another Case in Point I've been working through my prior research on my Avery family from Wood County, Ohio. I've been going through my old research and mostly filling in blanks with the now low-hanging fruit of "easy" records hinted to me from Ancestry. Things such as census records, vital records, obituaries, and so on. I found another example of "trusting" old research in my binders.

I believed earlier research, added a marriage, and moved on. Going back through census records decades later showed me exactly where I went wrong—and how easily it happened. #GenealogyMistakes
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Revisiting My Roots: A Case in Point Several posts ago, I talked about how I "believed" others who had built the family tree before I started researching. I put a lot of "trust" out there. "I believed everyone out there doing genealogy on the same families as me had been doing it longer and therefore must know more than I did, must have found the records already, and therefore their pedigrees, family group sheets, and trees posted online were correct."

Thought you could trust all those old online trees? I just uncovered a long-believed Avery–Meeker mix-up that proves otherwise. My latest genealogy cleanup turned up a surprise… #GenealogyResearch #FamilyTreeFinds #GenealogyMistakes #ResearchCleanup