James Tanner‘s Rule No. 2 (Focus on more recent sources and documents before you try to jump back in time) for genealogical research is pretty powerful but his rules one and three are absolutely key to getting started (or restarted) on your family research.
You can take all three in (and perhaps put them on the wall to look at over and over again) at his blog Genealogy’s Star at this link:
http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2011/08/it-is-both-who-and-what-you-know.html
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