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3. Select Records to Search Gotoarrow.png Select Specific
Records  You have identified a record type. Now you are ready to
compare information on your family group record with catalogs or
record lists in order to choose which specific records you will
search. First, look again at the family group record for
information about where and when a selected event occurred. If
necessary guess when and where it happened.   Helpful Guessing
Skills  To find useful source documents, sometimes a researcher
needs to be good at guessing information needed to find
ancestors in documents. Each of the following involves being
able to guess some additional information based on what is
already shown on a family group record:    • Guessing a Place
for every event on that family group. Usually you need to guess
where an event happened to be able to guess where to look for
records of that place.   • Guessing a Dat