Genealogy Mistakes to Avoid

1. Forgetting your living relatives.
2. Not being aware of the sensitivities of older member of the family when you ask them for/or impart information.
3. Accepting family legends as fact as nine times out of ten  you will be disappointed.
4. Don't ridicule people in old photographs as their memory may be held dear.
5. Assume your ancestors were boring - usually far from it.
6. Disregard brothers and sisters (collateral ancestors) - they could hold vital clues.
7. Think genealogy is no more than just names and dates.
8. Limiting yourself to just one spelling.
9. Be taken in by generic family histories.
10. Don't misspell the word genealogy.