AF-001: 5 Ways To Tell If Your Genealogy Research Is Accurate | Ancestral Findings Podcast

Looking for ways to ensure the accuracy of your genealogy research? Here are five useful tips that can help you achieve the highest level of confidence in the field of genealogy.

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00:00 - Intro
02:10 - You Have Found the Same Information in More Than One Set of Records
03:09 - Your Research Matches the Research of Other People
04:03 - You Can Reverse Engineer Someone Else’s Work
04:49 - Look for Confirmation for Your Wild Assumptions
06:00 - Get DNA Evidence
08:02 - Next Time

[Ancestralfindings]

Thank you for listening to the podcast and subscribing... I really appreciate it.

[patl.l.wright]

Thank you for the clear helpful information.

[Strawberria]

This is brings me back to the fact that I am pretty sure my family history of one of my great grandfathers is off by 20 years. Every time I came back with another piece of documentation I got nothing but push back from my family, but you can only explain away so many written records.

[kevinlabore]

Great tips, I have learned these over time during my research. I try to avoid any assumptions without secondary evidence There was one family I found that was I found that lived in adjacent town that was I originally thought ti was the one I was looking for. Same Parent names, same children, same birth order and were about same age ( I later found records that disproved they were the family I was seeking....although I suspect they probably share a common ancestor) . Don't always assume it is not a match because of information in record. Today I found a new record with "Harvey" instead of "Irving" from a 1940 Census record --- which ended about being a match (confirmed with Ages. Town, Motherr, Child details) . It has only been recently were I have been looking for missing info (such as spouse and/or marriage info) in other members trees. Good Lucj

[DianaWilson]

Great tips. Thank you.
02:10 actual tips start

[sambradley]

I needed this, thank you. I think I found an error somebody else made in assuming two different Marys and Henrys married together were the same. On my great great grandpa's WWI draft card he used his mother's maiden name and it was different to the supposed mother's maiden name, but similar to her middle. Plus, the Henry I found uses a variant of a middle name the other Henry had. One was a Scottish immigrant born in 1860 and the other a US born citizen in 1870! I've only found the 1870 Henry listed as the father of my great great grandpa; I can't find evidence the 1860 Henry or his wife with a different middle name are the same parents, but I also can't find evidence of his mother's listed maiden name in any records. Genealogy, I swear, it keeps me up at night

The reason why I know this is an error of one person is because I found somebody who made 3 different forum posts across more than a decade on various genealogical boards claiming 1860 Henry as the father, when censuses show 1870 Henry is. A genealogical group I asked for help even came across this but I've yet to dispute it until I can find evidence they're not the same person.

[johndoylemc]

My Great-Great Grandfather's brother was married twice. I found the original marriage record and return. His descendants told me I was WRONG! I found his hand-written Will. I also found sworn depositions of his widow and her sister stating they were sisters, and they both stated their husband's names (who were deceased) AND that they both agreed on their sworn testimony. His descendants begrudgingly agreed I was right.

[rfehr]

I'm a 34yo US male of German decent, and I've been interested in tracking down my coat of arms for many years. I'm the only male in a large family who's able to pass on the family name (barring any progressing women who might choose to keep their name and pass it on to children... none so far). When my grandma passed a couple years ago, I received a cache of family historical documents that I previously was not aware had existed.

Apparently my great great grandfather, Karl Fehr, who was a German professor at Penn State in the early 1900s, was also an amateur genealogist. He spent considerable time tracing our family line back to it's roots in German, as far back as 1092. He had a friend in German that had helped him search for the documents in Germany.

The only record I have of our family coat of arms is a written description of it, detailing generally what is on it, the colors and a few other details. It's not nearly detailed enough to develop an accurate sketch from the description alone. Do you know if there is any way to track down my coat of arms with this information? Is there a comprehensive database of coats of arms that could be queried or simply manually scanned for images of coats of arms under my family name?

[anaz]

So far I can proved my parents are my biological parents and even I have connected through 4/5 cousins by both sides through dna / family tree matching ancestors so so far so good but I’m only as far as 1836 on one side the other side mids 1900 .

[meanderer]

Well, as far as matching research with other people to see how correct your data is...that's all well-and-good, unless you both use the same resources that might be incomplete or inaccurate. For example, plenty of people sit on Ancestry for their only source. I've seen plenty of trees by people who are 'somewhat' related to me - but only use Ancestry as their source...unless they copy data from me. I've done more research by visiting towns and cities, going through the vital records and newspapers of those locations. And a lot of that information isn't available on Ancestry. On the trees of other people who are researching the same people, I rarely see anything new. It's either a total hash (repeated 'facts', names and whatnot), or a copy of the research I have done myself.

[rezkid]

My dad does family trees on notebook paper

[Willen_]

Also pencil genocide is a thing. Purposely putting down wrong info

[luckyb]

8 1/2 minute video with 1/2 minute content.

[stevecallachor]

It's spelled you understand what you are talking can it take notice of you if you can't pronounce your topic??


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