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'''How to Research Your Family Tree''', by Will Johnson, Professional Genealogist. This page written and copyright 2008 by Will Johnson, All Rights Reserved. You may email me at [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com] =Biography= I try to impart to my clients and myself, the overwhelming importance of treating each member of your tree in a full biography. That is, write a biography for yourself and each of your direct ancestors. For example, if one hundred years from now, someone is researching me, would they know that until second grade I went to Pidgeon Crest Elementary, but then from second grade to sixth grade, I went to Hawk Nose Elementary? Why is this important? Because it informs the researcher on '''where''' to look for documentation. Where the documentation lives, is one of the most important things to know. Now that you know what town I lived in until I was 7 and what town I moved to, at the age of 7, you will know where to look for my mother's phone directory and land-deed entries. Without this knowledge you'd flounder around in various books hoping by chance to encounter this information. Probably not even in the right county.
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