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RLP 230: Finding a Female's Father - Research Logs and Report Writing

The Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast

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The Limitation of Record Loss

The overarching research question is to discover the client's father but in this phase you were just focusing on finding a candidate for the father that you could then test with DNA evidence. Right I knew that there was no way I was gonna find her father in this project and I did set a limitation for myself just like I do with clients to try to limit this to about 20 hours. Yeah it's hard to write a report that's that long it just takes a long time. It does and this one actually turned out to be just 14 pages. The first section is the objective putting that at the top of the report is helpful for the reader and the writer to remember exactly the purpose of that phase

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