Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Family tree - new NB resource

Even though I have now been tracking my family tree since 2007, I still consider myself a "newbie" to it all. It's hard not to when some of the other researchers you are in contact with have been researching almost as long as you yourself have been alive! One of the things I have noticed often since beginning to research is that there are an incredible amount of people out there that seem to be content with just taking whatever info they found on-line and adding it into their own information without doing their own homework to see if it is even CLOSE to being accurate. Myself, I am the complete opposite, I am almost OBSESSIVE about verifying details. If I find something out there that possibly fills in a gap I'll make a note of it then start digging into on-line birth records, death records, marriages, etc., etc., looking for that one document that will confirm or deny the claim found before I even think of adding it into my own research. I just like accuracy (as much as you can be accurate with people that have been dead for 100-300 years!). Sometimes, when researching your family tree looking for those "missing" family members, you get lucky and come across an on-line resource that fills in some of those gaps. Today was one of those days. A big thanks goes out to another family tree reasearcher, genaddict, who has posted the burials for Lower Brighton Cemetery in Brighton, Carleton County, New Brunswick. The booklet, originally compiled by Hubert Bryant of Woodstock, NB in 1992, can be found at the following link: http://genaddict.livejournal.com/8510.html