My family history travels begin with 2 books, Val Greenwood, Ron Bremmer and being a volunteer at a LDS Library.

Researcher's Guide by Val Greenwood
Compendium of Historical Sources by Ron Bremmer

Later I added: The Source Book by Arlene Eakle and Johnie Carny

Over time of meeting and collecting families research, reading about evidence, it became clear a county history had been used, all the past people were simply going in circles. Past researchers: Verna and Jim Algeo, Oba Algeo, John Algeo of the Scooter Store, Ralph Hammond.

Genealogy.com has some excellent article's by Kory Meyerink, MLS,CG on the value of documenting family history research.

Board of Certification of Genealogists, Elizabeth Shown Mills

RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees under Sources, Type of Evidence, family historians must learn to weigh and evaluate evidence similar to the way juries do.

Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet II-Colonial Legal Terminology

Family History Center in Salt Lake City - every court house in the U.S. has been microfilmed, its easy to order and read the microfilm, make copies, study the court records, what does it mean. Erroneous Publishers in 1889 were only interested in making money, until legitimate court records are used, its only a family myth, not a family history.

Until all these books and articles are studied, until all family researcher's writings are analyzed,, the persons using county histories as a basis of family history are simply being the hamster on the wheel. Until the myths are discontinued, real family history will never surface.

My family history travels begin with 2 books, Val Greenwood, Ron Bremmer and being a volunteer at a LDS Library.

Researcher's Guide by Val Greenwood
Compendium of Historical Sources by Ron Bremmer

Later I added: The Source Book by Arlene Eakle and Johnie Carny

Over time of meeting and collecting families research, reading about evidence, it became clear a county history had been used, all the past people were simply going in circles. Past researchers: Verna and Jim Algeo, Oba Algeo, John Algeo of the Scooter Store, Ralph Hammond.

Genealogy.com has some excellent article's by Kory Meyerink, MLS,CG on the value of documenting family history research.

Board of Certification of Genealogists, Elizabeth Shown Mills

RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees under Sources, Type of Evidence, family historians must learn to weigh and evaluate evidence similar to the way juries do.

Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet II-Colonial Legal Terminology

Family History Center in Salt Lake City - every court house in the U.S. has been microfilmed, its easy to order and read the microfilm, make copies, study the court records, what does it mean. Erroneous Publishers in 1889 were only interested in making money, until legitimate court records are used, its only a family myth, not a family history.

Until all these books and articles are studied, until all family researcher's writings are analyzed,, the persons using county histories as a basis of family history are simply being the hamster on the wheel. Until the myths are discontinued, real family history will never surface.