Using the research form ideas from Marian Louis Pierre (specifically from her 2012 webinar and syllabus: "Plan Your Way to Research Success"--available for subscribers to Legacy Family Tree only or single digital download) and Evernote, I have started to put together an actual research plan (gasp!) for Job Taylor, one of my "brickwalls."
Master Research Plan
Ancestor: Job Taylor
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Project Start Date: 15 Feb 2018
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Specific Goal: Establish what is known about Job Taylor; look for additional information within given records; follow his trajectory and try to understand why he went there.
Questions:
What did he do as a living?
Who was his wife and when did they marry?
FAN club needs to be established (neighbors and names associated with his records)
Historical events in his lifetime?
Background Information:
Birth: abt 1800 in New Jersey
Death: 27 Aug 1850 in Johnson County, Iowa
Parents: unknown, possibly Daniel Taylor as father but that is speculative
Married (presumably) to Betsey (abt 1805 in PA or OH), not sure if his only marriage
Inferred children:
Simon Taylor (1832 Ohio)
Betsey (possibly my Elizabeth) Taylor (1835 Ohio)
George Taylor (1842 Ohio)
Info derived from Federal Census Records (1830, 1840, 1850), GLO patent record "sale of Public Lands" (to Job Taylor of Washington County Iowa"; land office in Iowa City), and Iowa Probate Records (on Ancestry)
Research Plan:
Task
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Source
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Location
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Birth date and place
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Who are his parents?
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Death Date?
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Determine Births of Children in Ohio
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Probate/guardianship records for Job Taylor
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Land records for Job in PA, OH, and Iowa
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Church Records?
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Gravesite/Cemetery?
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Literature Search for Job Taylor in PA, OH, and Iowa
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Local histories of Westmoreland County, PA, Holmes County, OH, and Washington/Johnson counties, IA
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Manuscript search for Job Taylor
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Manuscript search for contemporaries of Job Taylor
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Maps
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Historical timelines
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So now I need to fill in the sources I plan to use and where those are location. Then I can make a plan for each task.
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