Are you training young people?
Maybe you are new, maybe you are young or "experienced", Wherever you are in the family history journey you may enjoy Rhonda Rookie. We took Family Search's Rules for Rookies or Novices, that no one has found or talked about, and turned it into a series of lessons on the right and the wrong way to do research.
The more "experienced" consultants may think it is lame, or too easy, but someone new to research may actually learn something by the absurdity. Come on, admit it. At some point in time, you were a rookie. Don't you wish you had a list twenty years ago of what you should and shouldn't do?
If you were learning all over again, wouldn't you like to clean the information off the bones and pick someone's brain who has been through it? Well, Rhonda has her own way to do research. Family Search's Rules for Rookies show the right way, the wrong way and the consequences of the wrong way.
Join us in this 4 part series called Rhonda Rookie - We hope you laugh a little and learn something. Please send us an email and let us know if you learned something of value.
naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com
Ted and Karen Meyer, Area Temple and Family History Consultants
Arizona Scottsdale Coordinating Council
RHONDA ROOKIE OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
Why focusing on One Person is not a good approach
Rhonda is using a family story as her basis for truth. She doesn't feel the need to find the proper documentation to support the story. She is in for some real surprises! Here's an example. You can't find your Grandmother's maiden name on any of your Father's records...check your Uncle's birth or death certificate and see if her name was listed there. Think lateral when you are stuck - think outside the box!
Chapter 2
Why take notes?
Rhonda does her own thing and sometimes does not listen to her consultant. There are things that the Consultant could suggest which would make life so much easier for her. Let's see what happens...
Chapter 3
Rhonda Jumps to Conclusions
Chapter 4
Be open to change...
Being open to change is the biggest lesson you can learn. What you expect may not be what happened. Sometimes you need to accept something negative gracefully, document it and move on. When you are a consultant, you should present the facts and address them in a non-emotional way to the person doesn't feel awkward. This is their family and there were good things about this family. Being open to change allows you to look at things logically and document the truth honestly.
Be careful not to blame indexers or enumerators for things that are awry. They did the best they could with the information they had at the time. Be gracious.
FROM FAMILY SEARCH
AUGUST 2019
Who can I do work for?
Something new....
How to find this:
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Family Tree uses these dates—exact or estimated—to determine whether 110 years have passed since the person’s birth. (Learn more about the 110-year rule and whom you can reserve ordinances for.)
Something which appears to be new is the last sentence:
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"I don't know the exact date to enter into Family Tree"
Information
If an exact date is not known, you can either enter as much of the date as you know or estimate a year based on other information.
Partial dates
If an exact date is not known, you can enter incomplete dates like this:
- 1988
- August 1988
Calculated dates - If you don’t know a date, it may be possible to calculate one. For example, a birth date could be calculated based on the person's recorded age at the time of an event. So if an 1860 census lists a person as two years old, you may calculate the birth year as 1858. In Family Tree, you can enter the calculated date in one of these ways:
- 1858
- Calculated 1858
Estimated Dates
You can also estimate the year of an event based on other information. In Family Tree, you can enter one of the following words with the estimated year:
- Before
- After
- About
Following are examples of how you can estimate a date.
- You may have information that an ancestor died during World War I. The death date could be approximated as About 1914 (the starting date of the war; you could also list another year of the war if you knew the person died toward the middle or end of the war).
- You may have information that an ancestor died just prior to the start of World War I. The death date could be approximated as Before 1914.
- If you have a marriage date but not a birth date, you can approximate birth dates from the year of marriage. The general assumption used for such instances is that a man was married at age 25 and a woman at age 21. Thus, if you have a marriage date of 1875, you can list the husband’s birth date as About 1850 and the wife’s birth date as About 1854. (Note that these are general rules and may vary slightly by culture, time frame, or country.)
- If you know a marriage date but not the birth dates of the couple’s children, you can use an approximate year for the birth of those children. Estimate that the first child was born one year after the parents’ marriage and that subsequent children were born every two years after that. For example, if a couple was married in 1800 and had two children, the first child’s approximated year of birth would be About 1801 and the second child’s approximated year of birth would be about 1803.
- You may use family knowledge or tradition as sources for providing dates. For example, if family tradition says that an ancestor was 16 years old when she was married in 1876, you can approximate the birth year as About 1860.
Date ranges
You may know that a date occurred within a specific time period. In this case, enter the earliest date and the latest date, as in this example: From 1860 to 1870
"I don't know the death date"
If you know the person was deceased but do not know the exact date, click the Deceased option and either leave the date field blank or enter an estimated year.
Note: If the individual shows a death date and you attempt to delete it, a save failed error can occur. Rather than deleting the date, please use one of the formats above to enter an estimated date.
Estimated and partial dates affect the birth order of children
- The order in which children or multiple spouses are listed in Family Tree is based on the standard date.
- If you use an estimated or partial date for a child or spouse, they can appear out of order. See Related Articles for more information.
Related articles
Information for Members
Please do not assume a child died before the age of eight (8) without an official death record. Even if you find two or more records with the same or very similar given names for individuals with the same parents, there is no assurance the first child died before the birth of the second child.
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All of the above is from Family Search and if you need help I can help you find what you need on there, - just email me. naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com
All of the above is from Family Search and if you need help I can help you find what you need on there, - just email me. naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com
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