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As has been mentioned many times before, if you do find other researchers willing to share their findings with you online, whether through a family tree sharing site or a forum, make sure to always ask them how and where they found their sources so that you can double-check them yourself and ascertain their accuracy. There are thousands of people working in the online community who will hopefully be able to help you when you are stuck, but there is always the possibility that they have made errors too. This advice goes for websites set up by enthusiasts as well – plenty of people have now mastered the art of compiling their family history onto a personalized website, but there are no official checks to ensure all information published online is accurate, so it is important to carry out your own checks on their data. You can usually establish whether or not a website belongs to an accredited organization or a private individual from the URL address (i.e. the www. website address). If the address ends in ‘gov.uk’ this means it has been set up by a government organization, and those ending in ‘ac.uk’ belong to academic institutes, therefore their content should be reliable. Look out for the website administrator’s contact details so that you can get in touch with them should you need to qualify the validity of their data.

‘If you publish your family tree on a website or online, be aware of the various copyright laws that protect information supplied to you by other researchers or publications.’