Suggestion! Verify Information
Verifying information in FamilySearch involves comparing data to ensure that names, dates and locations align with documented sources to guarantee accuracy. Maiden names (birth names) should be used for women in order to facilitate record hints and allow for the correct identification of a woman’s parents and siblings. Avoid using characters, extra spaces and words that are not names. Standardizing locations is always good practice and helps to ensure accurate record hints as well. Working to make the tree as accurate as possible is a good suggestion!
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Keeping in mind that "standardizing locations" means linking the proper standard to the best, most complete, most accurate, actual place name that one wants to use for the displayed place name.
Not Standardized:
Properly Standardized:
Also, don't forget that historically a woman may have used her maiden name for 20 to 30 years and her married name for the next 70 years. Therefore far more records will be found with her married name than her maiden name. So be sure to use both. Accepted practice is put her maiden name in the Vital section and all her nicknames and married names, as many as she might have have, in the Other Information section as Alternate Names. The Record Hints routine uses every name entered in those two sections so that you can get hints for records no matter which name for her appears in the record.
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Thank you @Gordon Collett Excellent additional information on this topic!
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