Today I worked with my Thruline™ of Jacob Sutton. I looked at the DNA matches and noted the names of the ones which had known Sutton cousins as Shared matches. The purpose of the exercise was to become familiar with the surnames carried by Jacob's descendants. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in finding the common ancestor surnames that we forget that our DNA cousins surnames change when daughters marry etc. and these are names we might not recognize unless we study the entire family. I've been acquainted with researchers who only study their direct ancestor. That's something I've never understood because it really limits your research and causes you to miss out on so many opportunities for discovering other records. I could have collected the info and arranged it any number of ways: a spreadsheet, notebook, index cards etc. I chose to save it as an image file. I used Awesome Screenshot extension in my Chrome browser to capture the list view and add surnames.
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