3 Ways to Advance Your Research with Correlation
Shannon Green, CG®, CGG®, CGL®
Content
Welcome
2m 4s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 36s
Introduction
3m 43s
Simple Correlation
9m 58s
How to Correlate
7m 29s
Independence
6m 59s
Advancing Your Research
9m 20s
Test Hypothesis
7m 57s
Present Conclusions
9m 35s
Announcements / prizes
6m 14s
Questions / answers
13m 42s
About this webinar
Correlation is required to meet the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS), but what exactly is it? How do I do it? And can it help me solve genealogical problems? We will use case studies to demonstrate how to correlate evidence to generate ideas for further research, test hypotheses, and present conclusions. You will leave the webinar with clear steps to apply to your genealogy at different stages during the research process.
\nAbout the speaker
Shannon Green, CG®, CGG®, CGL® , is a genealogy researcher, writer, and educator. She started looking into her ancestry in 2010 and has been debunking family lore, overturning family traditions, and w...
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The speaker is an excellent instructor.\n\nThis gave me some other perspectives in considering how to use correlation. \n\nThis helps me comprehend correlation principles so much better!\n\nThis is one of the best presentations!\n\nThis was an excellent webinar!\n\nThis was an excellent webinar! Shannon Green is an excellent presenter. It was especially useful for beginning researchers like myself, since it provided excellent methodology and practical and useful tips.\n\nThis was an eye-opening look at correlation. It provided some great thoughts on doing correlation. I'm not there yet but will incorporate Shannon's methods going forward.\n\nThis was one of the most exciting webinars I have attended. I have someone that I can actually use this for that has been a source of speculation for a long time. Exciting. I love Shannon's voice as I usually have a hard time with the webinars because of hearing aids. \n\nThis was outstanding in every way. Graphics were very creative and clear. Wonderful ideas. I had really never thought much about the process of correlation, so this took me in new and fascinating directions. Thank you.\n\nThis was so great please ask her again\n\nSo very thankful I can go back to this webinar. \n\nVery clearly presented. A lot of great ideas for correlating genealogy information.\n\nVery good slides - thank you!\n\nVery good!\n\nVery helpful to hear and see examples of cases. \n\nVery helpful.\n\nVery helpful. I especially appreciated the various examples Shannon used so we could get an idea of what the different possibilities would look like.\n\nVery helpful. Will try right away the mapping ... quite relevant to the research project I'm working on. \n\nShannon is a great presenter - I hope she has some ideas for a future webinar!\n\nVery informative and interesting. Excellent presentor.\n\nvery informative, wonderful ideas to start using\n\nVery informative. \n\nvery instructional and easy to follow, inspired to use her suggestions\n\nvery interesting and helpful with all the case studies\n\nVery interesting. Puts a new and simpler spin on how to accomplish some of the BCG tasks\n\nVery nicely done--easy to follow. Excellent information that can be used today and forever. Thank you Shannon. \n\nVery thorough and so exceptionally well presented through the graphics/slides. Very succinct and per personable presentation shined throughout. Thank you for making the drier but necessary nuts and bolts carefully explicated and easily grasped. Please have Shannon as a presenter as often as she is willing ! \n\nVery thought provoking. I will explore how to separate men with the same name next -- I seem to have several.\n\nVery understandable! I'm going to use it right now. Thx\n\nVery useful info\n\nVery Very interesting and helpful\n\nvery well done\n\nVery well done presentation - clear and easy to follow! Thanks!\n\nVery well done. Lots of info. Love case studies, really helps to have examples for learning. Thanks.\n\nvery well organized and lots of fun\n\nVery well organized. Power points were well done and the information was done so we could understand it.\n\nVery well presented\n\nVery well presented\n\nVery well presented and documented. Totally understandable and enjoyable. \n\nWell done! I learned so much. Thank you Shannon AND Geoff.\n\nwell done. clear & fascinating!\n\nWell explained. Loved her case studies. Very patient instructor. Presentation was well-constructed and easy to follow.\n\nwell presented, gave me lots of ideas for furhter research. Thank you .\n\nWhat a marvellous presenter! Excellent tips, handout, and a lovely easy voice to listen to. Please bring her back again for any other topic!! \n\nWhile I already use some of these methods instinctively, I did learn (or was reminded of) some other ways of looking at my information. My issue is with same name men and wives with same first names but unknown last names, all having children with same names, same time, same area!\n\nWonderful - Great speaker!\n\nWonderful and very informative\n\nWonderful speaker, clear guidance, solid logic, great visual aids for documenting correlations\n\nWonderful to learn a new, easy way to focus and further my research - thank you!\n\nWonderful! So enjoy Shannon. I have been taking a writing course, and wrote a proof argument for it. Used Tables, Charts and Timelines to Correlate my information. Simplifies the presentation of information, as well as enabling correlation. Great ideas today. Extremely well organized and presented webinar. Thank you.\n\nwonderful, wonderful webinar!! Helps me determine how to focus on doing further research.\n\nWould love to hear more from Shannon. And, to perhaps see her do some Tech Zone videos on how she used / uses power points “bells and whistles” for timelines, etc.\n\nWow! An excellent presenter and loved the ppt :-)
Shannon Green was an excellent choice for a speaker.\n\nShannon has a great speaking voice, speed and excellent teaching method. I reconfirmed everything that I've been correlating.\n\nShannon is a fantastic lecturer. I would love to see more from her!\n\nShannon is a wonderful presenter! Very informative....I did notice the example of the Wilcoxon family from my Genealogy Principles class last fall through BU!\n\nShannon is an excellent presenter and she has a knack for distilling difficult concepts into fairly simple ideas. This was a GREAT reminder for me about the analysis part of the process. Always good to hear. Also, I'm in the middle of doing some peer reviews for essays and looking at several different types of correlation techniques. This helped me think about the technique's they've chosen for particular data and she's given me some ideas for suggestions! Thanks Shannon!\n\nShannon is an excellent presenter. I was part of the BU Principles Class and she was a fantastic teacher. She is my #1 favorite presenter/teacher. Her explanations are lucid, orderly and understandable. \n\nShannon is an excellent speaker; the presentation was clear, precise, and very well organized. Recommend adjusting the examples for records that are not so simplistic. Only in New England would you have so many birth, baptism, and other such records. Use examples from another state, such as PA, NC, or MD, which would add complexity to the case studies.\n\nShannon is fabulous! This gave me some new motivation to go back to old records and see what else I might have missed. \n\nShannon is one of the best to explain topics in a simple and understandable way.\n\nShannon put words to the way I think about ancestors. I've been correlating all along, I just didn't know the proper term for my methodology.\n\nShannon was easy to understand and follow. Slides were simple. Her voice pleasant and encouraging. Thanks!\n\nShe is exceptionally clear.\n\nShe presents in a very simple to understand method!\n\nShe was easy to follow and gave credit examples. I was able to take notes without difficulty. Thank you so much.\n\nSo clearly presented and what a cheerful personality!\n\nSo great to look at the topic from a few different directions! I saw her mention tax records and started to wonder why I hadn't used them before. Am going to now. \n\nSo helpful! Can't wait to start practicing it!\n\nSo helpful, well explained and good examples. Can be replicated meaning, even beginners can grasp, try some more simple; advanced acn go to town and try many ways! Did bring up good point that someone could do well to teach how to build these charts, etc. A Word and Excel course for genealogists!\n\nSpeaker was well prepared and avoided the dreaded uhs, ers, etc. The examples were clear and helpful.\n\nSuch a great presenter, so organized, clear, and a great voice to listen to, also! Thanks so much to everyone!\n\nThank you for teaching us the reasons we need to seek multiple sources for documenting out family history.\n\nThe 80 minutes flew by, and there was so much to gain from watching this webinar. Shannon Green shared so much information on how to Advance Your Research with Correlation. Thank you.\n\nThe seminar was very information. I see that I have more work to do. I enjoyed the presentation and will look in the library for more done by Ms. Green.
Inspiring. Her case studies were concise and engaging Her enthusiasm is contagious.\n\nInteresting ideas. Thank you.\n\ninteresting subjects and a great presenter.\n\nJust a great program and it was nice with Geoff adding comments.\n\nLots of good information and ways to forward my research. \n\nLove Shannon Green! She is a fantastic speaker who explains things in a way that is easy to understand. Everything she presented is something we can all use immediately in our own research. \n\nloved the very logical and methodical approach\n\nLoved this! A talented presenter - clear and easy to listen to, as well as informative and applicable. Please have her back for more webinars!\n\nNew information, really made sense!\n\nnice presentation, orderly and easy to follow. Very clear\n\nOne of the best webinar yet; Shannon sounds like someone I would enjoy talking to face to face; also gave me some good ideas of how to organize info on my problem children.\n\nOpened my eyes to a new way of researching!\n\nOutstanding presentation. The presenter was knowledgeable. Her presentation was clear and concise.\n\nOutstanding presentation. I was not at home. So, I watched on my phone. I will watch the recording when I get home this evening. Thanks so much.\n\nOutstanding use of tables and timelines to help you correlate your documents, in proving and disproving your hypothesis. Thank You!\n\nOutstanding! Have her back please.\n\nOUTSTANDING! Shannon has such a great voice, easy to listen to, explains her points very well and examples are so helpful in making those points. \n\nPast student of Shannon's and enjoyed her presentation. Thanks for sending reminder emails with links to access webinars quickly.\n\nPerfect pace, great case studies, very interesting and informative.\n\nPersonality Plus - her enthusiasm and knowledge come shining through. The Perfect Teacher with her just right handout!\n\nPlease bring in more methodology webinars!!! Loved it!!!\n\nPlesant voice, easy to follow with great slides. Thank you\n\nPresentation very clear and well-organized. Specific examples ALWAYS make it easier to understand.\n\nReally helpful! I'd been doing this in my head or in my notes, but not in tables or your other suggestions. I can see how this would really help.\n\nReally interesting and well done! Her explanations were so clear and easy to understand.\n\nre-enforced the need for this technique. \n\nShannon always does great presentations\n\nShannon explained things so well. I'll be following her advice ASAP.\n\nShannon gave very helpful information.\n\nShannon gives us so many unique ideas and tools to improve our research skills.\n\nShannon Green gave an excellent presentation today!!! Looking forward to implementing these new skills!\n\nShannon Green is a wonderful presenter. Very easy to listen to and to understand her concepts.\n\nShannon Green is now an automatic register presenter. I do not want to miss any of her content.
Good presenter. She taught me a lot about researching and recording information in ways I hadn't thought of.\n\nGreat charts ideas to use\n\nGreat examples and explanation\n\nGreat examples. Great delivery. \n\nGreat ideas and examples. This presentation proves to me I need to abandon my idea of doing all my analysis inside my genealogy software program. Instead, I will be attaching external analysis documents to my people in Legacy.\n\nGreat ideas for something that I've been trying to do without knowing it--those pesky elusive ancestors require it!\n\nGreat information & presented in such an easy to learn way!\n\nGreat information for high quality genealogy. Excellent presenter\n\nGreat information that was VERY well presented! More Shannon Green please. Thanks!\n\nGreat information!\n\nGreat job, Shannon! Information was very important and well=presented.\n\nGreat learning webinar. I need to listen to this again !!! Great Speaker !!!\n\nGreat one\n\nGreat presentation and follow-up question/answer session. \n\nGreat presentation! Correlation could have been a complicated subject, but she presented everything clearly and simply.\n\nGreat presentation. Information was presented in a n orderly manner and the case studies were great in making the point easier to grasp.\n\nGreat presentation. Enjoyed the new approaches\n\nGreat presentation. Good step by step process. We need more how to's like this. Very pleasant webinar. \n\nGreat presentation. News methods of correlation to use going forward.\n\nGreat presentation. Now all I have to do is attempt correlating myself. :)\n\nGreat presentation; Presenter was wonderful. Provided very clear ways to help untangle and organize information and get to a written conclusion.\n\nGreat review of things I know to do, but sometimes don't. Love your pacing and tech additions.\n\nGreat speaker. Enjoyed the topic. Excited about the homework.\n\nGreat visuals! Thank you for the helpful information.\n\nGreat way to teach a challenging subject, and provide more ways to correlate.\n\nGreat webinar\n\nGreat webinar! I have automatically been correlating records but didn't know it was actually part of the official genealogical process! Now I know exactly how and why to do it. Thank you so much!\n\nGreat webinar, Shannon!\n\nGreat, had to leave early, but will watch again!\n\nGreat. Shannon gave a lot of good examples and helped get the creative juices flowing.\n\nGrrrrreat. So much to do now --- following Shannon's suggestions. Thank you all -\n\nHer presentation was clear, consistent, and practical with great examples and clear explanations.\n\nI am working on trying to verify my ancestors especially those who are not in the US - the idea of correlation is new to me and this provided lots of ideas about how to get these different people in one place for comparison and further research. I thought the presentation was very clear and understandable. Thank you!\n\nI find the subject of correlation very interesting, however a lesser speaker could have made it boring. Shannon Green was the best speaker I have heard on Legacy Webinars (and none I have seen have been poor!). She was clear, concise and her slides were very helpful in aiding her presentation. Really enjoyed this presentation and I learned so much - all the examples shown help me to visualize correlation - and how to document it. I hope Shannon will be back for more presentations on Legacy Webinars!\n\nExtremely interesting. I love the Spanish way of surnames, both parent's surnames are listed in your name, making the search much easier.\n\nI have only recently started making lists and tables just to help me organize data. This webinar expands this practice so much! And demonstrates how and when (and why) to use these techniques. Thank you!\n\nI have tried the narrative method of explaining reasons for different death and birth records and I really enjoyed the charting methods and feel like going back and using your ideas to explain why I came to the conclusion I did. Thank you very much for sharing your ideas.\n\nI have used various versions of correlation but to clarify issues, this sessions explained the technique more clearly.\n\nI love the examples! The questions about the presentation skills also presented some ideas for tech zone. I hope you can follow through with those.\n\nI REALLY enjoy a webinar like this! Thanks so much.\n\nI'm a huge fan of Shannon's. She can discuss and illustrate complex research methodology and process in a way that I can easily understand. I especially love FTW because I can watch them again and again... and other supporting or related lectures... way to go Geoff and others... :)
2 days 2 great webinars on research ideas. thanks \n\nA clear exploration of a multi-faceted concept. Thank you!\n\na lot more verification necessary than I realised.\n\nAbsolutely awesome information and presentation of correlation! I'm going to watch other related Legacy Webinars now and learn more about doing this great genealogical methodoly! Thank you so much!\n\nactually i would give at least 10 points. this was one of the best webinars/speeches i've ever heard. lots of information but in a well structured package and therefore easy to follow AND understand.\n\nalready doing correlation but did think of many of the tools she used. she has a nice voice too and is a pleasure to listen to.\n\nAn excellent session that was well focused and provided practical examples for application. The handout also provided enough detail on the case studies that I could pay more attention to the presentation without worrying about missing something.\n\nAn excellent speaker and the mapping ideas were fantastic! \n\nAs someone who frequently leaves webinars early due to eye strain caused by cataracts, and looking at bright-white slide backgrounds, I am extremely grateful to Ms. Green for making her slides with dark backgrounds. Her presentation has been one that I’m particularly glad not to have left early.\n\nAwesome\n\nAwesome\n\nAwesome! Clear, organized, illuminating, and more.\n\nCan't wait to get started today!\n\nClear, great examples, nice powerpoint, lovely presenter. Thanks!\n\nClear, well-organized presentation covering a precise requirement of GPS in easily understood examples.\n\nClearly presented, excellent and so many examples. Thanks so much. \n\nEnjoyed listening to her. It's nice to hear other people walk through a process that we've all done. It confirms we are doing it right and gives us tips that we might miss. Super cool that her work was in effort of proving patriots for DAR. I do that all the time.\n\nEnjoyed the webinar so much Great speaker and easy to follow.\n\nEXCELLANT\n\nexcellent\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent\n\nexcellent and learned alot-----------------I love to attend these\n\nExcellent explanation of correlation and her examples were very helpful! Shannon is a great presenter! I look forward to more from her.\n\nExcellent ideas-I'm ready to go do my homework!\n\nexcellent info\n\nExcellent information and presentation.\n\nExcellent information and speaker. Got several new ideas on correlation!\n\nExcellent information. Thank you.\n\nExcellent presentation and examples used today by Shannon Green.\n\nexcellent presentation and presenter.\n\nExcellent presentation skills! A skilled teacher.\n\nExcellent presentation with great content providing ideas to aid and enhance my research. Shannon - Thank you!\n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nExcellent presentation. \n\nExcellent presentation. \n\nExcellent presentation. From slides to handout. Subject covered very well. Thanks.\n\nExcellent presentation; well organized; well worth the time.\n\nExcellent presenter!!!\n\nExcellent speaker and interesting case studies.\n\nExcellent speaker, very clear and useful examples!\n\nExcellent webinar - more from Shannon, please!!\n\nExcellent webinar! It's has given me lots to think about and use in my research. I need to look at that table of the DNA matches again and use something similar. I also want to use maps to research one ancestor's family's movements over the years. \n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! So easy to understand and to put to use!\n\nexcellent! A much needed presentation for me. Will be watching it again. Thank you! : )\n\nExcellent! I appreciate the webinars in the BCG series. I specifically appreciate the level of detail and topics covered in this series. They seem appropriate for intermediate and advanced researchers. This webinar on correlation, and specific examples of how to correlate was well worth my time. I know I can put these ideas to use right away. \n\nExcellent, I learned soooooo much!\n\nExcellent, well-done!! Clear and concise. Great information.\n\nExcellent. Was correlating without understanding exactly what I was doing.\n\nExcellent... learned some great correlation techniques. Thank you \n\nFantastic, Shannon. Now to homework.\n\nFantastic. Shannon speaks at a good pace. The information was very helpful\n\nFast-paced, well-focused, clear examples and explanations, where audio and visual material correlated perfectly with each other.\n\nGood presentation! Shannon is clear, gives easily understandable examples, really explains what correlation is and how/why to use it. Her maps, power points, etc. are super -- yes, it would be wonderful to have Tech Talks on the ways to use/create/adapt maps and timelines for genealogical purposes. Love Shannon's presentations.