Mike's Rule #17 - Make sure you read the fine print
Have you ever been your own worst enemy? Have you ever overlooked a clue on a digital image? I have. I tell myself, “Self, I have time to look at that later.” Then I don’t get back to it for a long time.
Wake up and smell the coffee. You need to take the time and read the fine print on digital images. Little tiny clues like the street address or which cemetery they were buried in. One time on a Scottish marriage record, the wife’s parents were missing. I didn’t think anything of it. So many US records have missing parents all the time. But the Scottish records are a bit more meticulous. The lack of parents meant that the wife didn’t know who her parents were.
I should have seen the potential for a non-parental event years ago, but I missed it. Every word (or lack of a word) is a clue.
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