Start with the basics

Seems pretty obvious that as family historians who deal with words and the origins of words that we should have a pretty good grip on spelling, right? Well, not always. It seems that many people, especially when they get started researching their family tree, have a little trouble spelling "genealogy". Probably the most common misspelling is "geneology".

For a little humor on this subject, look at this clever and descriptive memory jogger at http://www.oz.net/~markhow/writing/spelling.htm.