Genealogical Research

On Tuesday night, my sister’s team won during their second round of play at the state tournaments. They are now in the Elite 8, the top eight teams in the state for their division (AA). They play again on Saturday night in Rome.

Yes, I do actually have another genealogical point to make (plus, again with being the proud big sister). I received word after last Friday night’s game against Armuchee High School that one of my sister’s cousins by marriage had picked up a copy of the Rome newspaper the day after the game. He had bought this issue because of its coverage of the previous night’s game against our girls. Apparently, Armuchee disputed the game in some way; they thought our team had committed a foul at the end of the game, and were upset because they didn’t receive the corresponding foul shots (with the winning score 55 - 54 in our favor, those foul shots might have changed the outcome of the game).

Whatever the outcome of Armuchee’s protests might be (I haven’t heard anything further on it), this article did make me think a little about how we, as researchers, might overlook sources because they weren’t generated in the locale where a certain event took place. Naturally, a future researcher interested in that game would look in both The Clayton Tribune (our local paper) and The Rome News-Tribune (Armuchee’s local paper), as these are the most obvious sources to use. But what about other sources of information? Should said researcher check those? And how thorough should he or she be in searching for sources on this single event?

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