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Get all free genealogy resources for your state, organized and ready to use — The Research Library
Finding information and articles in newspapers about your ancestors is incredibly rewarding. And the amount of information about your ancestors in old newspapers is likely more than we can find.
But if you are not careful you can make assumptions about what is in ink on the newsprint and foul up your research because of poor conclusions.
And it is easy to do, correct? We fall into the trap of assuming that if it is published then it must be right.
This Quicksheet presents 8 ways to not mess up:
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