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Sometimes
it’s the seemingly littlest “tips” that have the biggest impact on our
genealogical research! This post from
last year on Family Tree Magazine’s blog about “Reverse Genealogy” reminds us a technique that many
genealogy researchers overlook and shouldn’t!
It’s easy to get tunnel vision when
researching an ancestor. But your research is best served by considering your
focus ancestor as part of a community. (Emily Anne Croom, author of the best
selling genealogy guide Unpuzzling Your Past, call this "cluster
genealogy.")
Not only is your great-grandfather a
member of his nuclear family, but also of an extended family. When you do
reverse genealogy, you go a step beyond him and then research forward,
broadening your search to his relatives and even friends. Any of the folks in
your ancestor’s “cluster” could have provided him with housing, worked for him,
asked him to witness a document or attended his funeral...
On a related note,
there is a YouTube video of Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak talking about “Reverse Genealogy: Finding the
Living.”
Have you
had a “Reverse Genealogy” success? If
so, please share!
Editor’s Note: There is an ongoing course, Reverse Genealogy: Working Forward to Break Down Brick Walls offered by Family
Tree University
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