Free space in my family history records generally means I have work to do, a gap to fill, a mystery I have not yet solved. Often when I am looking through my family history notes I will look for the free spaces and pick one in particular to work on and try to fill.
Perhaps it is a missing baptism or burial record, a gap in census records, an unusually long time between the births of children. Any free space in an ancestor's timeline deserves investigation.
I find it is a useful exercise to go back through my notes, charts and timelines and look for free space, to see what I have missed or not followed up on as well as I should. It is all too easy to follow the information I do have on to another generation or another individual, to go down the rabbit hole of a new discovery and not return to an individual whose information is incomplete.
Noting the free space in my family history helps to prompt me to go back, research more thoroughly and fill in the gaps, until hopefully on day all those free spaces are filled.
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