With all of the research, I have forgotten to talk about the
Steps involved with Inferential Genealogy. Dr. Jones puts step 3
this way. Step 3: Understand the Records If we don’t understand
the records, we won’t get all the information from them that we
need to answer our research goal. • Know why a document was
created. • Follow document creation processes from beginning to
end. • Note differences in records. Is there something that
appears in your ancestor’s record that is different than the
records of others? I really focused on this step early on, and
will cycle back through this with other records. The first
example is the understanding Civil War records. This study took
me to look at these records. I really hadn’t looked at them, as
my earlier research just hadn’t taken me there. The two lessons
learned with looking at these records is: 1) Where to look, and
2) the details that you might find. Fold3.com (formerly
Footnote.com) has a great collection (for me) of Civil War
records. What I didn’t know is t