What we do when we assume
December 31st, 2007
You know this joke right? Its a play on the word ‘assume’. You make an ___ out of "u" and "me".
Whether you conciously do it or not, you make assumptions every day of your life–about a variety of topics, people, situations, etc. But when it comes to your family history, assumptions can lead you to a dead end.
Michael John Neill has written a nice article on this subject over at Ancestry.
Which reminds me that my mom was relating that she’s found out new information on an ancestor of ours–he claimed to be born in one state, when in reality he was from another–it was an appearances thing. Just goes to show that unless you were there witnessing the event–you have to take everything with a grain of salt.
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