« Reply #8 on: Thursday 23 October 14 15:09 BST (UK) »
I tend to recheck previous records and then go sideways, as siblings are related directly to the same ancestors and sometimes I find it is easier to find more records on them than the direct ancestor I am looking for.
I have learned to check records like PRs AND also BTs of the same are/people often finding different/clearer information and if I can get hold of the parish Day book that has broken many brickwalls with information not being transcribed correctly or not at all into the PRs, including finding village taken census with so much detail including what children they had, where they were, who they were married to and the ONLY primary record which proved an illegitimate child to be the child of which sister one named Eliza, the other Elizabeth who always lived with grandma.
The parish chest documents have in the past helped me, invoices paid out/work done and by who.
After that if I can't break it I will ask, just the task of writing down what I know and where the information is from often alone helps me see what I am missing with an additional benefit of fresh eyes and suggestions, along with some who have access to records I didn't know about or have no access to.
Then I leave it go onto another line and come back later, sometimes years later to review what I have.
Finally with one direct ancestor I have researched the ancestry of the two men, one 'I know' is the father but have no primary facts/records for, the other who I have all the primary records for but 'I know' he is not the father and write in my records all the reasoning why I think this. ......and this certainly for future genealogist will become more' normal' as single parents write on records their latest boyfriend down as the father and/or change their child's and/or their name to match boyfriend reality is that it was no different in past generations ie lying on records than it is now, we just know about it now
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