First connection "up" to existing profiles

Question

Hi all, I've been making some contributions based on some printed family trees I have and some other research and personal knowledge, etc.  Some of the people I've started to add have had existing profiles and some have not.  I'm now at the stage where I've identified an ancestor that I'd like to figure out how to connect "up" from some fragmented existing profiles to the greater tree that exists here.

I suspect that Churchill-4014 is the daughter of Belden-1034 and I'd like to start researching this connection.  

I imagine there are some tutorials for this that I haven't been able to find yet, but I'd like to get any specific advice people here might have.  What would you do first?

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Any of the profiles have to connect to one which is already connected.  For example:
John Smith is not connected.
John Smith marries Mary Bloggs - and she is already on WT and already connected
Wait 24 hours, and John Smith will be connected to the big tree.

I don't think there are any tutorials, because the process is so simple.  Person A needs to be connected to spouse, or siblings, or children, or parents who are themselves already connected.  Nothing else will connect Person A to the big tree.

Comments

Hi, thanks.  That's not really what I meant, though.  I'm not looking for the process of connecting them in WikiTree, but more along the lines of how would I start to identify sources to support such a connection.  Both profiles exist and I'd like to see if I can support the hypothesis that one is the daughter of the other.  Do people typically start by google searching, start on specific websites that contain primary sources, start by looking at sites like "find a grave", or are there other best practices in this sort of research?  

It's probably a very fundamental question for people who are used to this kind of research, but I'm just looking for general advice on how people tend to start this task and potentially even specific advice on sourcing this connection (or disproving the hypothesis).  

Thanks!

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Sorry.  Think of a paper trail.  Look for primary records ie birth certificates or official governmental birth records, parish registers, marriage records, death or burial records, censuses, Wills.  Then you can branch out into land records, title deeds, tithing maps etc.  Places to look would be familysearch.org (free), Ancestry (paywall), FindmyPast (paywall), and as you go, you will build up your own toolbox of good sites to visit.  FindaGrave tends to be a "See Also" type link, rather than a source.

Most (if not all) Projects have a list of reliable sources.

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Thanks!  That's very helpful.

Answer 2

One of the easiest things to do is use the Root search to see if anyone else has made the connection.  https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KHN8-QM1

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20361850/hannah-churchill

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Oh awesome, thanks.  So I see that that connection was made on familysearch.org based on the link you provided.  Now, I just need to look through the sources there to see which proves the parental connection, I suppose.  Thank you.

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That's right.  Obviously, it's best to sit in an archives with original documents and microfiches but you should learn the online tools that exist.  Familysearch has a lot of documents but it has it's vulnerabilities too.  You may need to put some effort into analyzing the documents to make sure they are correctly linked to the right people.  It's easy to make mistakes and you should assume that mistakes exist.