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Learn more about your ancestor's life through the wealth of information on his or her death certificate. Here's how. Show Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/death-certificates/ Genealogy Gold Podcast:  https://ancestralfindings.com/genealogygold 

Researching your German ancestors takes knowledge and ingenuity. It is not like researching ancestors in America. Show Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/tips-for-researching-german-genealogy/ Genealogy Gold Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/genealogygold 

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Are you just getting started looking for marriage records in your genealogy research and need some help finding them? Here are the best places to look. Show Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/genealogy-basics-marriage-research-advice-for-beginners/

Do you have an elusive ancestor who didn't seem to leave any records behind? You can still discover important things about them. Here's how. Show Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/what-to-do-when-there-are-no-records-3-ways-to-find-ancestors-who-didnt-leave-a-paper-trail/

There is a lot of guesswork and uncertainty in genealogy. People in the past may have put the wrong information on old records, either from genuinely not knowing, or from having something they wanted to hide. Mistakes can be made in transcriptions of documents from one location to another; even tombstones are known to sometimes have mistakes on them from the stone cutter. Census takers make mistakes in the spelling of names (and even the dates and places of birth of the householders they enumerate). Those who published family genealogies in the 19th century, when this was a popular thing to do, often relied on legend, gossip, and the erroneous family stories other people gave them. There is a lot of room for human error in genealogy research, and you are undoubtedly going to come across it, either in the work of others or through mistakes you make in your own work. Even the best genealogists will once in a while discover they got an entire line wrong based on one incorrect assumption, misinterpretation of a r