L. Burke
Honor Code SignatorySigned 30 Jan 2015 | 332 contributions | 12 thank-yous | 702 connections
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ETA: I'm already learning a great deal. I have only begun to add profiles and, since only a couple of matches have emerged thus far, I imagine a lot of information is going to be tediously sought and manually entered. (I have family members who have GEDcoms but they are not at this point interested in the Global Family Tree.) In the profiles I've gotten started with, I have temporarily cited Ancestry and Find a Grave (and noted conflicts/errors in interpretations of spelling, etc.) but I plan to search for more concrete documentation over time. Much of what I have posted and cited from Ancestry is actually first-hand account information, but accuracy and the ability to verify the information is, of course, important to each of us. Please know that this is very much a work in progress and will be evolving as I delve deeper and hopefully get assistance from other family historians as they are able to help. Having only traced on my own back to the 1500's, I'm very excited to see today that I am distantly related to a fellow WikiTree genealogist via a common ancestor in the 1300's!
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