How to Find the Truth about a Family Story
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG®, CGL®
Content
Welcome
1m 28s
Introduction
11m 18s
4 Cornerstones
5m 7s
Tradition
7m 55s
Records
10m 30s
People
25m 25s
Your Blueprint and 4 Cornerstones
1m 50s
Announcements / prizes
5m 1s
Questions / answers
6m 13s
About this webinar
Oral history provides the foundation for all family research. Documentary evidence builds structure on that foundation. But documents often conflict with family traditions. How do we determine the core truths that are essential to understanding our own past? This class examines the causes of those conflicts and demonstrates how to peel away generations of confusion to find the real story that underpins family lore. Case studies include both Native American and African American traditions.
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 (64)
Once again Elizabeth Shown Mills with methodology, sound research, using maps and DNA those brick walls can be broken and family stories can be set right. Elizabeth does not disappoint and I need to slow down my process and evaluate the information I have. You give us all hope that with good basic research methodology techniques, we all can break those brick walls.
This was the most exciting and exhausting of any of ESM's presentations over the more than 20 years I have been acquainted with her. Unbelievable!
I always enjoy ESM's presentations and this one did not disappoint. Sometimes I need to slow down and absorb the steps, so re-watching might be a good thing.
Good use of the concepts of "verify and document" that guide us in all of our research. Ms. Mills demonstrates that we need to verify all of the facts in the story in detail to be certain of the facts.
As always ESM's lectures inspire me to not give up on my brick-wall research, with so many new avenues to follow. There are so many ways to look at these genealogical "problems". She is amazing.
Elizabeth's webinars are amazing. There is so much to learn from her about methodology. Thank you so much for the wonderful webinar series.
Wonderful presentation, as usual!
Excellent as always! Thanks especially for the information about the Dawes Commission.