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I have gone through newspapers for days at a time trying to find someone and not being sure if the person I was reading about was the correct one.<\/p>\n
I have starting making a file on the computer and taking screenshots of the material so I don\u2019t have to go back and look for it later.\u00a0 If you find out you don\u2019t need it then it is much easier to just trash it out of the file than having to go on the hunt again.<\/p>\n
Well, several times it ended up being useful or the correct person! Especially when it came to the newspaper article. Seems like the newspapers would make a lot of mistakes back in the day! You might discard an article because of a mistake and later figure out that it is the person you are looking for.<\/p>\n
Sometimes they would even leave things out because everyone in that small little town knew exactly who they were talking about. (making jokes or using nicknames) But a hundred years later we don\u2019t always have that privilege.<\/p>\n
Another big tip. Learning from my mistakes as I go.<\/p>\n
When you are taking pictures or screenshots of items online, always be sure that you get everything in the photo needed to identify the source. I have had to go back several times when I would get in a hurry as I realized I missed information that I should have captured.<\/p>\n
One of those searches was looking for things about my grandparents. Trying to put something physical with a memory. That was important to me because my grandfather died when I was nine years old. So very few memories, but the ones I had were important to me. So collecting as much information as I could was on my list of to do things.<\/p>\n
I really wanted to see the property where my grandparents had lived back before he passed away. I had memories of going there and preparing chickens for the freezer that they had raised one year when I was a small kid.<\/p>\n
My “DaddyBob” loved all kinds of birds .They were all over the place. All I could remember was that it was at a lake. I thought I knew the lake, but I was not sure. I knew they lived close to Eastland, Texas and the lake was really close to their house. So off to maps to research and see if I could come up with a name for this lake.<\/p>\n
There are several lakes in that area of Texas, but I finally found where I thought they may have been. Also while looking for all of this I was going through paperwork. Looking for anything that would help my search and I found an envelope addressed to my grandparents from when they lived there.<\/p>\n
Big tip here! Always look through all of those old papers your grandmother kept. <\/em><\/p>\n And my grandmother kept a lot of things. Sometimes you think it is silly but it sure helps when you are doing research like this.<\/p>\n