One tip that is taught in the UK that catches people's attention is, "Kill off your ancestor." There has been a tendency to skip over the events at the end of a person's life. Scottish death certificates are a great example of why death information should be the first place to look. They provide a lot of detail. Naturally other localities don't have such great death records but that shouldn't stop researchers from looking at the myriad of death related historical records. People often dismiss probate records because their ancestors were not wealthy. The greatest value from probate records is the names and relationships mentioned in the will that are usually not indexed.
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