Valid and Unsound Assumptions: What Was She Thinking?

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   Jeanne is such a skilled researcher yet she explained today's topic in such a way I felt I could use her ideas/techniques too! She kept my attention to the very end. Excellent presentation! Jeanne has presented other webinars and each time I go away feeling the same way.\n\nJeanne proved again how good she is at genealogy research - also great story teller\n\nKind of a stunner, Jeanne Bloom is making me re-think everything! Thank you for the reality check of what we take for granted.\n\nLearned a lot. Excellent Webinar and Instructor.\n\nLots of good food for thought about assuming so called facts.\n\nLoved the curveballs - everything is not as it appears\n\nMade me think that I may have to go back to some of my research.\n\nMost interesting and provided very helpful information to assist in determining how to verify that I am researching the correct person and line. Another great webinar.\n\nMost interesting and very informative. Thank you! : )\n\nnice examples, I have a few assumptions I need to explore\n\nReally enjoyed her discussions and analogies. Interesting problem that I have encountered as well.\n\nReally food for thought...boils down to prove everything. If that's not possible disprove.\n\nShe got her point across of not assuming things. You need to do an exhaustive search.\n\nShe is always great and very helpful explaining genealogical proof standards!\n\nShe provided great information on the dangers of assumptions!\n\nSobering. Continues the theme that I developed during the recent NGS conference: "everything you know is wrong!"\n\nsorry I couldn't stay for the whole thing - very interesting topic\n\nThank you!\n\nThank you. Clear and concise presentation. My search for evidence will be more intense from now on.\n\nThanks for things I never thought about! My brick wall may be the result of unsound assumptions!\n\nThis lecture gave me a plan to follow on my difficult ancestors.\n\nVery enlightening to see how facts and assumptions are proved or disproved and what road was taken to do so.\n\nvery good learned a lot\n\nVery good presentation relaying a lot to consider. \n\nVery helpful reminder to be mindful of making assumptions - & the distinction between types of assumptions is helpful too.\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative\n\nvery interesting case study. I'm sure there is much more for Jeanne to learn!\n\nVery interesting. I dom't know if my mind works good enough!!\n\nVery interesting. I need to do more extensive searches on my brickwalls. \n\nVery thought provoking! Lots to review. Thank you\n\nVery useful information for genealogists at any level - loved the case study!\n\nvery well done / presented.\n\nWonderful analysis of assumptions!\n\nWonderful webinar on valid and unsound assumptions.

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   Appreciated the case study.\n\nBrilliant detective work\n\nBrought up some "forehead slap" moments of why didn't I think of that!\n\nclearly communicated with theories and how they were debunked.\n\nclearly described assumption pitfalls for a complex situation\n\nExamples and explanations were excellent and understandable. They were based on actual research and actual mistakes one could make. \n\nExcellent for thinking through our research processes.\n\nExcellent information on how to sort out people of the same name - I have a lot of those in my family! Thanks! \n\nExcellent points for us all to be aware of in our research!\n\nExcellent points were raised. We often forget to think about our research problems to determine all the possible angles we should consider. This webinar reminded me!\n\nExcellent presentation of assumptions, the differences, and how to overcome them.\n\nExcellent webinar! So very easy to follow her research. Thank you very much. \n\nExcellent webinar. Look forward to watching it again. It contains a lot of good lessons.\n\nExcellent!\n\nGood course - presented well. I definitely relate to some of the assumptions.\n\nGood food for thought as far as planning and conducting a research project\n\nGood information, I was distracted because it caused me to rethink some of my tree that matched her examples. I have a GGF that looks like he abandoned his family and the wife lists herself as a widow in the census. But I found he was living with his brother under another name in a distant county. His brother had an alias name too, which was corrected in his obit by their siblings attending his funeral.\n\nGood presentation. Interesting ways to broaden the research techniques needed.\n\nGood subject \n\nGood thing not every problem we have is such a fine example of assumptions!\n\nGreat\n\nGreat presentation. It helps to know that even certified genealogists make bad assumptions. Hope for the rest of us. \n\nGreat webinar! I learned a lot about unfounded assumptions \n\nI appreciate the focus on one standard and fleshing it out in a case study.\n\nI can in late but what I heard was good\n\nI do not want to become a CG, but I'll "try" to keep Jeanne's suggestions and cautionary tales in mind as I do my genealogy searches. It's a challenge!\n\nI enjoyed it. \n\nI especially appreciate being presented with details of the next steps the researcher took, what they researched next and why, and (in this case) it's good to know what the researcher SHOULD have thought and done (instead) to be a better researcher.\nI thought her list of assumptions we CAN make (e.g. if a woman is under 12 or over 60, she's not the mother of the child) was as important as her case study of the way her incorrect assumption led her astray. Will make me more aware as I review family data, to see if it's valid.\n\nInteresting prompt to review my own data\n\ninteresting story of Elizabeth and her family.\n\nInteresting webinar. I was curious about whether Elizabeth was actually divorced or not since she dropped her petition to the Supreme Court and no actual divorce certificate was talked about. \n\nIt is always good to be reminded of, or made aware of, assumptions in this research. This presentation covered good ones with examples that were clear. Thank you, Jeanne!\n\nit makes you think more about whether your work has been done by assumption or by fact.\n\nIt was a very well-thought lecture with an interesting case study.\n\nIt was very fascinating and something that I need to watch out for as I work with clients and on my own family history.\n\nIt will help me pay more attention to the assumptions I bring to any research problems.\n\nIt's a standard I don't think consciously about as being a standard nut was relieved to realize I use.\n\nIt's great to see a professional genealogist let us in on her early research mistakes, what she's learned from them, and how she would undertake the same research now.\n\nJeanne has taught us a lot about Valid and Unsound ASSumptions great examples!\n\nJeanne is a very clear speaker. She explains her points vey well.

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