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When Records Are Silent: Building Proof with Indirect and Negative Evidence
When no record states the answer, the evidence may lie between the lines—or in the silence. Learn to distinguish indirect evidence, negative evidence, and a negative search; determine when an absence is meaningful; and correlate subtle clues. Case studies show how these tools can reconstruct families, resolve conflicting claims, and prove events never explicitly recorded.
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Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Prove Unrecorded Events
with Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG
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Negative Evidence: Making Something Out of Nothing
with Denise E. Cross, MSLIS, CG
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No, no, Nanette! What negative evidence is . . . and isn't
with Judy G. Russell, JD, CG®, CGL®, FUGA
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Five Wives & A Feather Bed: Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Resolve Conflicting Claims
with Mark A. Wentling, MLS, CG
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Assembling Indirect Evidence to Locate the Mother, Siblings, & Slaveowner of Freedman Arthur Braud (a 2025 Reisinger Lecture)
with Jari Honora, CG®
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