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The family history comments and citations log in the tab of each family member should contain key information. Later on in your family history research you may decide to share your data or even publish your work and you’ll need to know your sources for obtaining and verifying the information within your family history lines. Showing the basics like name, birth, death, married, spouse is great but for example if you found the persons birth certificate show the date you found it, birth certificate number, the source, quoting file numbers, source name and addresses, authors, titles, pages and publishers.
Massachusetts family history database is available only to members of the New England Historic Genealogy Society [ NEHGS] and enables you to search for family history information, including records for Massachusetts birth, death, and marriage records from 1841 to 1910.
When investigating your family history try wider sources and records such as divorce, medical, immigration adoptions, land title, school attendance, biography from local history books, wills and obituaries
Many local libraries and history societies have a family history section, files or resources dedicated to Family history and while many of these require membership it is a cost effective way of accessing multiple family history resources, without the cost mounting up.
