Thought I would kickstart the forum here with a quick post on using the "research" profile menu option in Genosis (note that you must be logged in as a "researcher" (i.e. admin user) account in Genosis to see the research menu option).
If you haven't checked it out yet, it's a really nice way to quickly search the internet for records - just click on the "research" button and your search options will drop down. Clicking on the "search" button will automatically initiate a search on the selected site, saving you the time of having to enter it by hand.
Here's some tips:
- FamilySearch is probably your very best bet for census records, and general birth/marriage/death records going back to ~1800 or so - this includes both US and Canada.
- Be wary of what you find on Google - unless the site lists it's sources (typically not likely), it very well could be wrong. There is a strong tendency in new genealogical researchers to try to link their family to famous ancestors (such as European royalty), and often will do so with the littlest evidence. Try to avoid that - a good "rule of thumb" is don't add anyone to your tree you aren't absolutely sure of. This means you want to have sources that prove the lineage.
- If you can afford it, Ancestry.com has the best collection of records online. However, just because it is on Ancestry.com does not make it guaranteed. Ancestry.com allows their users to submit "corrections" for many of their records (Millenium files, Ancestry.com Birth/Marriage/Death/Individual records and the IGI record). So make sure you are looking closely at the record to see if it has been modified - if it has, try to find a second source to validate the modification.
Feel free to post here with any questions you have - I can do my best to answer.
Hope this helps!
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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
updated by @brian: 02/02/15 07:03:14AM
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