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- Anything that could have burned, did. - The census taker with the clear handwriting and good ink never enumerated your ancestors. - If you find a well documented, illustrious ancestor, you've probably made a mistake. - Your folks hated government and never filled out forms. - The book you need is never indexed, or, if indexed, doesn't include people. - Your families never had attics, much less Bibles or boxes of photos in them. - All real library discoveries are made five minutes before closing, when the copier is broken. - The correctly shelved books and correctly filed forms are never the ones you need. - The person sitting next to you at the research centre is finding ancestors every five minutes ...and telling you. - The email address that bounces is the one from a person who listed your exact names. If you find a working address, you aren't related. - Your microfilm reader is the one that squeaks, has to be turned backwards, and doesn't quite focus. - Your cemeteries have no caretaker or records archive. - Alternate spellings and arcane names were your folks' favourite pastimes. - Or, your folks only knew three names, and used them over and over in every collateral line. - Your sister neglects to mention that the data she gave you, which you have researched, and sent to other researchers, was just a guess with no foundation, and she guessed because she "didn't like leaving that line blank." - Your mother neglects to mention that, "Oh, yes, we knew they changed their name." - Blank genealogy forms never have quite the categories or space you need. - All software packages look good, but immediately have a problem with *your* special case. - Discussions about how to compute cousinship are never resolved. - And finally, it's infinitely easy to get sidetracked doing genealogy (grin). |
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Page Revised: July 2002 (Don Tate)
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