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Nathaniel Simon Notheisen
Nathaniel Simon Notheisen ✭
July 27 edited July 27 in Search

familysearch.org/en/wiki/Research_Process

Hello, so as as stated I am confused how to apply all the steps in the research process. I have looked at other ones and this one follows the same pattern just in a different order. I am not confused about that part. What I am confused about is the step to Gather Low-Hanging-Fruit Sources. I am not sure if the article is telling me to do it in step one, or to search all these records first, but in step 3. It just feels a little out of place being in step one. It feels like it should be in step 3. Well, let me know what you guys think on it.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 27

    It doesn't matter one whit.

    As the wiki article states, genealogy research is an endless loop: what you know helps you find stuff that changes what you know so you can find stuff. How you do the finding, and when/where/how you keep track of stuff, is a highly individual sort of thing. Some methods are more efficient than others, but in the end, the only thing that matters is doing it.

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  • Nathaniel Simon Notheisen
    Nathaniel Simon Notheisen ✭
    July 28

    Cool. I will start doing it. Thanks for the explanation.

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  • Maile L
    Maile L mod
    July 28

    For me, the most helpful thing was keeping a research log (making notes, keeping track of where I looked, what search terms were used) so I wasn't wasting time looking at something I had already researched and then forgot about.

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