"The broad historical facts are important and, while they may be true, genealogy is concerned with history on a more individual scale. As such, it's important to remember that statistics about an average person almost never pertain to a specific individual."
"[T]he challenge presented by electronic viewing of records is that we miss the association with other records of the same type which may be physically located next to the ones we are interested in and we also miss the seeing exactly how the documents appear in their actual physical location."
"The late Stanford mathematician George Polya devised a problem-solving process that has been used in math classes for years. Even though family history problems are not always math problems, Polya’s procedure can provide a framework within which to work."
