How to utilize a paper trail?
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Assuming that you are talking about a genealogist's paper trail, what that means is that there are documents, sources of some sort, that tie individuals together as a family. There would be some that tied children to parents and others that would tie those parents to their own parents...continuously back to whenever you run out of records. When genealogists talk about the paper trail, they are usually speaking in comparison to family stories or DNA. While grandma might SAY she is descended from Pocahontas, if we cannot find records that document each individual relationship between her and Pocahontas, we have to figure that was either wishful thinking or a misunderstanding on grandma's part. The same is true of DNA. If two people match DNA, that is all great, but doesn't help much unless we add the paper trail (the documents) that prove where the ancestral lines meet.
Does this help explain a paper trail better for you, @Andyburno?
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