Genealogy Research

Perkins Family Book

Common Errors in Perkins Family Research

by Paula P. Mortensen

Pierre de Morlaix (1320) Genealogy Report	Jacob Perkins, Jr. (before 1746) Genealogy Report	Daniel Perkins (1807) Genealogy Report
Dr. Elisha Perkins (1740/41) Genealogy Report	George Clement Perkins (1839)

 

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Common Perkins Research Mistakes

A number of misconceptions and errors are being published on the World Wide Web, and even in some commercial books and CD-ROMs.

The best general advice is to verify all materials against primary sources like official vital records (birth, death, marriage) and other original and first-hand documents or accounts.

Some sources that can provide a head-start, but should be checked against primary sources include:

• Books by Virkus i.e. Compendium
  
• Books by William R. Cutter
  
• LDS IGI (Unless Vital Records)
  
• Family Tree Maker's World Family Tree submissions
  
• Unsourced family genealogies
  
• Web sites unless the information can be verified by the submitter
  
• Torrey's "New England Marriages Before 1700" can be very useful, but remember he used secondary sources. Each should be verified.
  

And that is the key word, verify, verify, verify.

More complete research is included in Paula P Mortensen's book

English Origin of Six Early Colonists by the Name of Perkins.

This Perkins Early Colonists book includes siblings, paternal and maternal lines, notes and sources.