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The Hidden Gems Inside Privately Published Family Histories
Unpublished and privately published family histories--like county histories--are unfortunately often ignored by genealogists. However, the clues contained in undocumented family histories may provide a great jumping-off platform for research. This presentation emphasizes and demonstrates how valuable hidden gems are often discovered buried inside these types of family histories.
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Researching in 3 Steps:Documents, Citation & Context
Researching in 3 Steps:Documents, Citation & Context
Combining beginning and intermediate opportunities, this presentation combines fascinating stories of humanity paired with opportunities for compassionate context with citations for the documents utilized.
Researching in 3 Steps: Documents, Context, and Citation
Researching in 3 Steps: Documents, Context, and Citation
Combining beginning and intermediate opportunities, this presentation combines fascinating stories of humanity paired with opportunities for compassionate context and an analysis of appropriate citation for the documents utilized.
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Brick Wall Busting Strategies: Hammering at the Wall
Brick Wall Busting Strategies: Hammering at the Wall
This is a fun presentation with strategies, sources and a variety of documents that just might hammer down that frustrating brick wall. Examples of brick walls broken down are demonstrated by using vital records, military records, census, prison, land records, newspapers, passenger manifests, and divorce records including a complicated story tracking a woman whose name […]
Forgotten Treasures in the Texas Courthouse: Discovering Miscellaneous Records
Forgotten Treasures in the Texas Courthouse: Discovering Miscellaneous Records
Are you looking for context and documentation? Do you have an ancestor that seems to have slipped between the cracks? Then these Texas gems hidden away in our county courthouses may hold an answer for you. This presentation not only presents 2 fun Texan stories that have come to life with information found within Miscellaneous […]