BBWCHATT, well I am sure that is not necessarily the case but I do know there is a real difference between the way genealogy is done online and the way it is done using the primary and secondary source material in a county record Office or a local Studies Library.
The main difference is that i have a thorough understanding of not just how the indexes and records look on the internet, but how they were compiled and for what purpose, what they include, what the original source contains and how much info you can derive from the index and the original indexed record.
I also feel that there needs to be an nderstanding of how people lived their lives on a day to day basis to try to uncover by deduction and elimination what records they are likely to be found in, why they did what they did, why things turn up that cause us to puzzle over what has happened.
I did teach many topics within the subject for 7 years and so through repetition it is all stored in my head, the thing now is that though the primary sources and original type of record have not changed, the research methods have through technology and the internet.
i am dying for someone to post some really interesting questions about the Poor Law, Tythe maps, Manoral Courts, Paleography, Quarter Session records, early taxation etc, we shall see, i hope the other ABers with some understanding of the sources used will be able to offer their advice aswell, like those here have already done.
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