Since I was sick today, Maynard Hammond took the class. I appreciate his willingness to just jump in and share what he is doing. Here is the summary of what he did:
I showed them a family that I
was working on. It was put together by a researcher that hadn't given a
single source. We then went in and found multiple census records on
FamilySearch and a marriage certificate on Findmypast. They all agreed
with the family except for the wife. The marriage certificate showed
the marriage about a year before the first child was born. The census
data showed he hadn't remarried well after children were born. We
talked about how they might go about changing and fixing the record.
Then I showed them the easiest way.
I also showed them Recordseek.com and we added the marriage record from Findmypast. We also added the census records.
There
was so much to do in the little class time we had, but I feel all who
were there learned how records can be fixed and documented.
When I went home I added
several more sources and continued to try and unravel the many Samuel
Law's that were married to a Betty in the area. I'm still working on
getting the puzzles unraveled and have proven and documented several but
still have a few more to unravel. I'd like to get all the records
available assigned correctly. I'd also like to find the correct husband
for the wife we replaced and verify she wasn't a marriage late in
life. Somehow, the researcher thought she was part of the family, but I
haven't found records that support it.
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