Research planning is guaranteed to improve the quality of your family history
Planning your family history research helps you prioritise your efforts, avoid duplication, and identify the tasks still ahead, so you’re set up for research success.
With good planning, you are more likely to find the information you need and identify the correct people to include in your family history.
Planning is not a single task you complete once. Integrate it into your research process to improve the quality of your research.
Follow the family history research process cycle
Planning is a process. In this process, you place your research questions within a hierarchy of goals: aims, objectives, research questions and hypotheses. This provides the context and meaning for your questions.
Then you scope out what you already know, before identifying what you need to do next in the tasks step.
The final step, after conducting new research, is review. And then the cycle starts again.
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