What I like about undertaking a one-place study is that it has FAN (Friends, Associates, Neighbours) research at it's core. At the beginning I started with a number of disparate individuals and families drawn from Electoral Rolls and cemetery records. As work progresses, connections become apparent ... Sometimes, because people turn out to be family or connected by marriage and sometimes the connection is for quite different reasons ... They lived next door to each other, they were on opposite sides of a dispute, they worked together ... Any number of things.
What I like about undertaking a one-place study is that it has FAN (Friends, Associates, Neighbours) research at it's core. At the beginning I started with a number of disparate individuals and families drawn from Electoral Rolls and cemetery records. As work progresses, connections become apparent ... Sometimes, because people turn out to be family or connected by marriage and sometimes the connection is for quite different reasons ... They lived next door to each other, they were on opposite sides of a dispute, they worked together ... Any number of things.