AF-1236: Same Name Ancestors, Part 1: The Time Method | Ancestral Findings Podcast

Same-name problems are one of the biggest sources of bad trees. You find a record for a name that fits the right county and the right time period, you attach it, and then hints do the rest. A spouse appears. Parents appear. Children appear. In five minutes, a whole family is "built."

Then a year later, you notice something that doesn't fit. A second household with the same name. A land sale that conflicts with your person's location. A probate file that names different heirs. Now you're stuck trying to untangle a knot you didn't mean to tie.

The best way to prevent this is to stop relying on single records to prove identity. Most identity problems are solved by building a pattern across time. The tool that forces that pattern to show itself is a full timeline that includes every candidate and every record, even the ones you wish did not exist.

This method is not complicated, but it does require discipline. It also works in almost every place and time, even when the surviving record set is thin. The goal is simple. You build two separate, internally consistent timelines that cannot belong to the same person, and you document why each record belongs where it belongs.

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