Finding Fathers: Tracking Males Who “Disappeared” or “Just Showed Up”
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG®, CGL®
Content
Welcome
1m 53s
Introduction
9m 6s
Land Surveys
3m 25s
Federal Land Records
1m 57s
Bonds
1m 31s
Tax Rolls
1m 30s
Court Records
6m 25s
Private papers of public men
5m 0s
Sideways Research
15m 30s
Naming Patterns
1m 33s
Environment
14m 3s
Announcements / prizes
4m 39s
Questions / answers
11m 52s
About this webinar
The legendary Choctaw Chief Pushmataha swore that he sprang full grown from Mother Earth. As genealogists, we sometimes wonder whether our ancestors did the same. Most elusive men do have traceable origins, once we learn to deal with the issues that thwart us—migration, high mortality rates, and illegitimacy being not the least of them. This hour offers practical suggestions and strategies for extending paternal lines, focusing upon the pre-1850 period when censuses don’t identify children in parental households.
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 natio...
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Comments (210)
Typical. ESM's webinars are always...exquisitely detailed and informative. Her syllabi help me to follow up with activities to learn more deeply and then apply the knowledge to my own genealogy. Thank you, Elizabeth Shown Mills, for sharing your considerable knowledge that helps me in my own education plan.
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I have new hopes in finding my 2nd great grandfather that seemed to walk off the face of the earth. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Can't wait to apply these new techniques
The "Best of Elizabeth Shown Mills" is always "the best"! Thanks again for an amazing presentation!
Excellent! Again! You've given me a few new ideas to check out. Thank you!
Such superb methodology!
I'm hoping this will help me with my brickwall. my 2nd Great-grandfather married my great-grandmother's mother and disappeared before she was born. He didn't leave many many clues, but I'm going to check through everything I have and using some of what I learned today and see if I might be able to at least knock down a few of those bricks in that wall.
Fabulous info. Have been introduced to new resources I wasn't aware of. As always, enjoy webinars produced by Elizabeth Shown Mills.
This is a fantastic presentation as are all of Elizabeth's webinars! She is such a great teacher. Thank you so much!