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Webtrees and search engines10/28/2022 ![]() For recent generations of Americans, this is usually possible via the censuses, at least up to people born before 1930. Besides, when you enter data by hand, you have a chance to catch errors in your tree or the other tree. I’ve got one tree that I’m doing this to right now and it’s not a whole lot of fun. This may include eliminating lots of “Living Surname”, which I find it too cluttering to keep around. It’s possible to merge trees, particularly if you are working with a tree you’ve started online, but I’ve found that it rarely saves you time in the long run since there are likely differences in how I do things and another person does things so that I have to look at everyone I’ve merged and make changes anyway. Once I’ve found a likely tree for a person which matches information I already have, I start entering the data into my tree by hand.Even using another genealogy program, you can probably find a tree for a person searching Google or another search engine. Most of the time there’s at least one tree which appears in the search results, and even when there isn’t, there may be a tree for another family member. In Family Tree Maker /, it’s as simple as clicking a leaf or starting a new search. So how can you use the limited time you have when confronted with a virtually unlimited supply of raw data? I use the Reagan procedure, “trust but verify.” But if there’s one thing in short supply for anyone doing genealogy, it’s time. Now you can, of course, spend lots of time trying to verify data you find and then carefully document where you got your data from and what your evaluation reveals. ![]() ![]() While some of them have lots of citations and even documents included, others simply copy the work of others and that without much critical evaluation. ![]() These days there are so many family trees available on the web that it’s a real problem deciding what to do about them. ![]()
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