19 Dec 2023 Occasional Genealogist Blog – : Interested in Noting the Clues?

Hi Ian,

Just wanted to make sure you had a chance to enroll in Your Genealogy Mystery: Noting the Clues so you could start taking notes and capturing the clues you need.

From the Roadmap support emails you should already be aware that…

1.   For most genealogy questions you won’t find “the answer.” You have to create the answer by combining clues.

2.   You won’t find clues in your family tree, that’s where you keep “facts.”

3.   You can’t use your clues if you haven’t captured them (and they aren’t in your tree so where did you put them?).

Clues belong in your notes. One reason is, some information you won’t know is a clue until you gather more information later. Notes are how genealogists have always kept track of information they’ll need later, even if they don’t recognize the importance of that information initially.

​Noting the Clues was designed to be a quick and easy way to learn to take great genealogy notes so you can capture clues before you even learn what to do with them. If you aren’t taking genealogy notes (or wonder if you’re taking good notes), this mini-course is for you!

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