Finding Sophia's Family: A Case of Fratricide and Forgotten Identity
Nancy A. Peters, CG, CGL
Content
Welcome
49s
About BCG
5m 17s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 23s
Introduction
5m 6s
Known to Unknown
2m 35s
Research Question
9m 0s
Migration
2m 8s
Whole-Family Research
13m 5s
Hypothesis
19m 49s
Conclusion and Takeaways
4m 26s
Announcements
45s
Questions / answers
4m 51s
About this webinar
A quarrel between brothers turns into tragedy. The murdered man’s young widow and children leave their rural home for city life, never returning. Former family connections are forgotten in time. This webinar illustrates the case of finding the birth family of a mid-nineteenth-century South Carolina widow who left her family’s homeplace. No record provides an exact birthplace or fully identifies her parents. Learn how widow Sophia’s forgotten identity was reconstructed by understanding the era’s social context, creating and testing hypotheses, and conducting whole family research.
About the speaker
A board-certified genealogist, Nancy A. Peters, CG, CGL, coedited the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ) from 2019 to 2022. She served two terms as a trustee of the Board for Certification...
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Comments (62)
Excellent presentation. Thank you.
Fantastic presentation. Loved all the hints and tips. Thanks.
Nancy made a very complex case easy to follow with her methodology. There were so many factors involved, i.e. the identities, locations, and especially the social content. GREAT I'm so happy I have a subscription so I can replay this and will probably find even more clues to use in my own research. THANK YOU
Thanks, Nancy, for providing such clear guidance (through this case study) on how to solve challenging research problems.
I thought the presention was informative, well researched, and organized. I am definitely using this as inspiration for continuing my research on my mother's father's side of the family tree as that side is still a mystery.
Very Concise presentation of a VERY complex FAN research plan to answer the question of father's name...using reasonably exhaustive research. WHEW!!!
That was great!
Great way to finish 2023! Informative and clear.