The Sixth Rule of Genealogy
Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site.
Rule Number Six is “Records Move.” Upon reflection, it is quite easy for even experienced genealogical researchers to find themselves in a situation where they ignore and are trapped by one of these basic rules of genealogy. One common situation addressed by Rule Six while researching in the United States, involves the so-called “burned counties.”
Rule six refers most directly to “paper” records. The actual, physical recording of events. The movement of the records commonly occurs when records are gathered to a “centralized” repository or when people immigrate from country to country or place to place. A good example of this rule is the entire United States Archives and Records Administration. This federal agency has vast warehouses of records parodied in the movie starring Harrison Ford called Raiders of the Lost Ark.
See this link for a list of all of the Rules. https://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2021/12/another-new-rule-of-genealogy.html
