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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.
Megan Clark Young — Learn the history of the land dispute between Pennsylvania and Virginia, including an ejectment suit by the most famous man in America.
Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA – Learn the value of theses and dissertations in creating context for your narrative and describing why and how something happened in your ancestor’s life.