Finding Origins & Birth Families: Methods That Work
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
Content
Welcome
55s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 0s
Introduction
3m 15s
Misplaced Trust
7m 31s
Pet Theory
5m 29s
Incomplete Research
7m 38s
Lax Documentation Habits
4m 44s
Weak Analysis
4m 15s
Hope for Easy Answers
16m 24s
Taking Short-cuts
4m 8s
Final Case Study
7m 39s
Announcements / prizes
3m 44s
Questions / answers
8m 13s
About this webinar
The most important path an ancestor blazed along the way from his place of birth to where we first find him is usually not a trail that cartographers have conveniently charted for us. Successful researchers learn to recognize and analyze the elements of an ancestor’s life and times, as well as people, that serve as pointers to his path. This session examines the nature and causes of stalemates in our research; ten common traps and ways to avoid them; and innovative methodologies for working smarter, not harder!
About the speaker
Across a long career, Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS, has been an innovator of research methods and strategies. Published widely by academic and popular presses, she edited a nationa...
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Comments (94)
Very thought provoking!
so thorough! Thank you.
She is brilliant!
Great webinar.
Elizabeth is the best!
Elizabeth has inspired me to revisit those brickwalls!! Wonderful webinar!
It is so seamless that it may be necessary to go back to review particular points/ strategies.
Very helpful. I have been intuitively doing this for twenty years before I learned about FAN which has brought me closer to dismantling a couple of brick walls but there is more to do. This webinar definitely crisped up how I will continue to approach my brick wall problems. Thank you.