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Tips tricks and little nuggets to help

So here I am thinking how can I make this blog interesting so that people might actually want to read it. Do people want another blog about how to research your family tree? Should it be a lost of instructions? Should it have examples of what I have researched myself. Is "name collecting" wrong? Some of you may have read my thoughts on research and evidence. If not you can do so here   http://katperrywaffle.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-difference-between-right-and-wrong.html I still stick with everything on here. If you can't back it up you cannot confirm whether it's right or wrong. This leads me to what I believe is the first and most important rule when researching your family tree (or anything to do with local history for that matter).  So here is my first (very brief) rule!  You cannot find everything on the internet! Yes, sites like Ancestry and Find My Past have a huge amount of resources and documents on them.  My new favourite, the British Newspaper Archives boa...