Have you gone through your information on a family and written down every assumption you made about them? This basically covers every thing you don't have a document for.
Assumptions are not necessarily wrong. You just need to remember that you made them and determine what your reason was for making them.
Amen!
ReplyDeleteAssumption: Mary Patrick met and married Robert Dickie in Ayreshire then emigrated to southern Illinois.
Why? Because they came from a coal town and went to a coal town. And Mary was said to speak Scots, a surviving form of Old English (not Gaelic) still current in that area. BUT no evidence of her marriage in Scotland.
Turns out Mary Patrick had come to America as a child with her parents. The same evidence applies, different interpretation. :)