Keeping Up with the Smiths and Joneses

Gail Blankenau

Oct 27, 2017

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Content

Introduction

2:55

Family Groups

5:41

Where Do We Go From Here?

3:22

Don't Neglect the Middle

5:39

Naming Patterns

6:40

Getting to Know You

1:01

Probates

9:54

What's My Line?

1:00

Land Neighbors

4:17

Do the Deeds

2:55

Group Dynamics

9:12

Summary

1:47

About this webinar

Sometimes in our ancestral research, we will come across a forebear with a common surname. It's tempting to fling our hands up in surrender and move on to another line; however, there are techniques that can help us to keep up with our own Smiths, Joneses and even those Johnsons.

About the speaker

Gail Blankenau

Gail Shaffer Blankenau is a professional historian, genealogist, speaker, and author specializing in Germanic genealogy, Midwestern and New England roots, and American lineage research. Her passion fo...

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