Good advise Lou, Hope it isn't too late for the folk who have just started out and those who have already printed out their work and given it to families already. I think it true to say that all of us whether researching for over 30 years or more, have at the beginning made a mistake as we have found a record in some published work of our families and have taken it as gospel, only to find otherwise at a later date, it wasn't the case. Researching for over 30 years does not make us experts in everything though, as some of us may of been making the same mistakes for 30 years, I hope I have rectified most of my mistakes by now. I certainly have made one or two early on. I would rather leave my research at a point of being correct, than add some person who could be the right one and go off cockeyed. Work on the known and put meat on them, photos, newspaper, certificates, etc. Doesnt matter if you havent got 10,000 names like Jo Blow, as apposed to say a more workable 3,000 with a lot of interesting true facts attached to them. I will certainly be doing that and most likely will only have 3,000 people over all of my families. I want a Family History that is not all names and dates. I want my Family History to have a Photo attached where possible if not a photo of the person, maybe something of significance to them like a medal or favourite thing, gravestone,newspaper article, certificates if any, what e! ver, just not all text. That is my aim, not how many names I can gather. We all have our ideas of what we want dont we? Edie ------------------------------------------ From: lr_mills via <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com; Subject: [LIN] Admin. note: Research Hi, Missing Lincs, I know that many of you know how to do research, but it surprises me how often I find people who "take the shortest path". Nivard, Bazza and others have talked about finding more than one source to document a relative, but too many family trees are based on a leap of faith based on one entry found online.