Look it up in the Dictionary
As
a young student in elementary school, we had to use a dictionary to look up how
to spell a word. It never made sense to
me to “look it up” because all words were listed in alphabetical order; so to
“look it up” you had to have a basic idea of how to spell the word to begin
with and if I knew how to spell the word, then I wouldn’t need to look it up!
Genealogy
is similar; you have to know specific foundational information to “look it
up”. To research, you have to know a time-frame and a location. Without a small time-frame and specific location, a person could
be looking and searching forever in a million different places. Computers have made these types of searchers
easier, but if the search engines don’t find anything, then you really need to
narrow your searches down to a particular time frame and a specific location.
So,
to “look it up” sounds easier than it really is; similarly in genealogy to
“look it up” means you have some knowledge of time and place.
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