How to Find the Truth about a Family Story
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
Content
Welcome
1m 28s
Introduction
11m 18s
4 Cornerstones
5m 7s
Tradition
7m 55s
Records
10m 30s
People
25m 25s
Your Blueprint and 4 Cornerstones
1m 50s
Announcements / prizes
5m 1s
Questions / answers
6m 13s
About this webinar
Oral history provides the foundation for all family research. Documentary evidence builds structure on that foundation. But documents often conflict with family traditions. How do we determine the core truths that are essential to understanding our own past? This class examines the causes of those conflicts and demonstrates how to peel away generations of confusion to find the real story that underpins family lore. Case studies include both Native American and African American traditions.
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 (64)
Once again Elizabeth Shown Mills with methodology, sound research, using maps and DNA those brick walls can be broken and family stories can be set right. Elizabeth does not disappoint and I need to slow down my process and evaluate the information I have. You give us all hope that with good basic research methodology techniques, we all can break those brick walls.
Elizabeth covered a lot of ground in sorting thorough family stories/traditions in a way that was easy to follow. Her examples clearly illustrated each talking point. She is an excellent presenter!
Learning from our Senior Genealogists, who have paved the way for us, is so important; ie EMS and Tom Jones, off the top of my head.
Elizabeth's webinars are always worth watching.
Fascinating
Elizabeth is the best!
This was (as always with Elizabeth) fascinating and very helpful. Thank you!!
Always educational to watch ESM walk trough case studies to demonstrate her methodology.