The most important thing you can do as you research your family history is to keep good records about where you find information. That’s a lot easier to do in the digital age, since you can just copy and paste details and links. My secret weapon is using Bitly.com to shrink the links to manageable sizes. You can add an icon to your desktop. The next time you find an important detail, just click on the orange bitly icon and it will create a nice, neat link. Copy and paste it into your favorite genealogy program.
Here’s a sample: https://bit.ly/34xu6BQ. I usually add the name of the page, the person and identifying details, and the link above. So my official link would look like this:
Grimmrussia.org online database, Danish German Immigrants to Grimm, Russia, 11. Jacob Fritzler, see: https://bit.ly/34xu6BQ.
This source tells you exactly where you found the information, the name of the person it applies to, and a link to the page where the information resides. The goal is for anyone following your research to know exactly how to see your sources for themselves.
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