In geneaology, when it rains...

[Cawdorian]

Sometimes when you are searching some of the names on the family tree, you make a great find. I was doing some online searching a few weeks ago on one of my GGGM's line and found another cache of family information that took me back another 500 years. Now the hard work begins, looking for the sources of the information in an effort to verify and make certain the information is correct.

Documentation is everything in genealogy. make certain the researcher has posted the sources of their information, there is a lot of bogus genealogical information out there on the net. Google can be an excellent source of information, sometimes it is amazing what you can find when you do a google search on your ancestor's name or place of birth. A lot of information can be found on city, county and state historical websites.

Congrats on the McGregor find, I've got some Gregory ancestors, I haven't been able to trace them back to Scotland yet, but I will keep digging.

[JimB]

Another MacGregor!!!!
Congrats on your find! I keep digging and hopfully will hit some gold soon.

Now if you find some MacGregor tartan at a decent price...let me know!

[gilmore]

Sometimes when you are searching some of the names on the family tree, you make a great find. I was doing some online searching a few weeks ago on one of my GGGM's line and found another cache of family information that took me back another 500 years. Now the hard work begins, looking for the sources of the information in an effort to verify and make certain the information is correct.

Documentation is everything in genealogy. make certain the researcher has posted the sources of their information, there is a lot of bogus genealogical information out there on the net.

That is so very important. Internet genealogy has both its good and bad points. Information is more readily available, but then misinformation can more quickly get into much wider circulation than when we had only printed materials to rely on, and can be repeated over and over again.

Sometimes some do years of research based on other people's (or their own) erronous conclusions, only to see it fall apart like a house of cards when more reliable information is discovered.

I have a cousin who says that he never accepts information until he can hold the original document in his hands. Until then it is tentative. And even then, original documents can contain inaccuracies.