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U zult zich al snel realiseren dat het werken aan een stamboom in alle richtingen kan gaan en exponentieel toeneemt, naarmate u langer bezig bent.

Dus u zult grenzen moeten stellen als u kwaliteit nastreeft.

De volgende punten zijn slechts voorbeelden van keuzes die gemaakt moeten/kunnen worden om de grens van een onderzoek af te bakenen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You will soon realize that the genealogist's work is exponential and can go in all directions.

So you will have to set yourself limits if you want to do a quality work.

The following points are only examples of choices to be made to delimit a research perimeter that can be achieved in a lifetime.

Whose genealogy?

Define whose genealogy will be developed:

  • Yours
  • Your wife's
  • Your family's, starting with your children or grand children
  • That of a close relative
  • A friend's.

Over how many generations?

Define the number of generations to be identified:

  • All the way back to the great-grandparents
  • Back to Independence day, the French revolution, the first English settlers, back to William Shakespeare birth, etc.
  • Back to the Middle Age or William the Conqueror

Which branches?

Define branches to be identified:

  • All
  • Paternal lineage only
  • Maternal lineage
  • Specific ones

What descendants?

Define from which ancestors you wish to identify descendants and cousins :

  • From the highest ancestor found
  • From Great-grandparents
  • From all ancestors found

What level of detail?

Define the level of detail to be obtained for each individual

  • According to its generation
  • Systematically have the sources of all acts
  • Only Birth, Marriage, Death
  • The maximum number of events