Revisiting My Roots: Correcting Errors Back when I was a beginner, I trusted. A lot. 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. What a sweet summer child I was!

Not everything in an online family tree is golden—sometimes it’s pure… compost. Here’s how I’m cleaning up my own early genealogy “garbage.”
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Revisiting My Roots: Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit Another step I take when working back through my research from when I was a babe in the genealogical woods, is finding the low-hanging fruit. When I started, there wasn't a lot online. I wrote letters to libraries and courthouses, genealogical societies, sent forms in for vital records, etc. I think many of us in the field who started in this before the internet for genealogy really took off remember those days.

Revisiting the basics isn’t a step back—it’s how we strengthen our trees. The low-hanging fruit builds a sturdy foundation. #GenealogyJourney #RevisitingMyRoots #FamilyHistory