Webinar Library

Paula Williams — Family lore tells a different story than the records for the paternity of a southwest Virginia great-grandfather. Learn how DNA helps solve the mystery!

Jim Bish–Learn how genealogy was used to discover the sources for Weems popular biography of Washington. Jim Bish’s book, I Can’t Tell A Lie: Parson Weems and the Truth about George Washington’s Cherry Tree, Prayer at Valley Forge, and Other Anecdotes, forms the basis for this presentation. It is the winner of the 2023 National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Stephen Taylor Award given to the book which has made the greatest contribution to the preservation of the history of the Revolutionary War and its Patriots.

Kelly L. McMahon – How many of you make a shopping list when you go to the grocery store? Or, who remembers the day before google maps when you had to go to the AAA office to get maps to help you navigate your road trip?

Good genealogy follows a similar planning strategy – to keep you focused and to maximize your research time.

Barbara Vines Little — Sources are important—we need to know what records are available and where they can be found. But, unless we understand the background and the law as it applies to the records we will miss important clues and even lose our way because we assume things that are not so. It takes time and experience to learn the ins and outs of research in a particular area. A new resource is at hand, one that packs between its covers the information with examples that is normally presented in a one-week institute course. Join me for a peek inside.

Tim Kilby — From the book Gourdvine Black and White, a case study with resources and research methods . . . and afterthoughts on acknowledgement, restorative, and reparative genealogy.