Oral Genealogy in Asia-Pacific: The Essence of Personal Identity and Tribal Connections

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Proving Parentage Two Centuries Later Using DNA Evidence

Proving immigrant origins may seem daunting, especially when the family lived hundreds of years ago. This presentation shows how to navigate multiple border crossings, name changes, and cultural challenges and apply DNA techniques to trace a family of Canadian immigrants from town to town. The right combination of documentary evidence and biological evidence, coupled with sound methodology, reveals the origins of this family.

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Proving Parentage Two Centuries Later Using DNA Evidence

BCGMethodology and SkillsHistorical RecordsReisinger Memorial Lecture Series

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Wed, April 20 2022: 0:00 UTC

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Seven Immigration Methodologies, with Case Studies Across the Centuries (a 2021 Reisinger Lecture)

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Seven Immigration Methodologies, with Case Studies Across the Centuries (a 2021 Reisinger Lecture)

Family historians face significant challenges tracing immigrant ancestors. Changes in language, culture, family composition, given name, surname, country of residence, and occupation tend to obscure the origins of many immigrants. This presentation introduces seven methodologies to effectively trace immigrant origins, illustrated with examples from the early 1600s to the early...

BCGMethodology and SkillsHistorical RecordsReisinger Memorial Lecture Series

Seven Immigration Methodologies, with Case Studies Across the Centuries (a 2021 Reisinger Lecture)

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Fri, October 8 2021: 16:15 UTC

1:22:51

Genealogical Treasures in Irish Archives

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Genealogical Treasures in Irish Archives

An enormous variety of Irish manuscripts tell the stories of our ancestors. Parish registers, census returns, Griffith’s Valuation, and civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths provide a great beginning for Irish family history research. However, a careful search of record repositories in the Republic of Ireland and the United…

Genealogical Treasures in Irish Archives

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Tue, June 16 2020: 0:00 UTC

1:17:07

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Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard

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Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard

With billions of indexed records available online, what methodologies should the researcher employ to best leverage these resources in keeping with genealogical standards?

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Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard

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With billions of indexed records available online, what methodologies should the researcher employ to best leverage these resources in keeping with genealogical standards?

Tue, October 17 2017: 0:00 UTC

1:24:18

Editing Your Own Work – Part 2

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Editing Your Own Work – Part 2

Genealogists write. Their written narratives include stories of ancestral families, biographies of individual ancestors, and explanations supporting genealogical proofs. For their writing to succeed, genealogists—like all effective writers—repeatedly self-edit everything they write. The process results in polished products that the genealogist’s readers will understand, enjoy, and cherish. Emphasizing genealogical narrative, these two webinars will address the self-editing process. Part 1 will focus on “big-picture” editing, including stages of self-editing; focus; keeping the writer out of the narrative; editing the writing’s overall structure, organization, and flow; and improving major and minor subdivisions of written genealogical narratives, including paragraphing. Part 2 will focus on “nitty-gritty” editing, including capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling, word choice, and reducing word count.

Editing Your Own Work – Part 2

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Wed, June 19 2024: 0:00 UTC

1:27:11

Editing Your Own Work – Part 1

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Editing Your Own Work – Part 1

Genealogists write. Their written narratives include stories of ancestral families, biographies of individual ancestors, and explanations supporting genealogical proofs. For their writing to succeed, genealogists—like all effective writers—repeatedly self-edit everything they write. The process results in polished products that the genealogist’s readers will understand, enjoy, and cherish. Emphasizing genealogical narrative, these two webinars will addresses the self-editing process. Part 1 will focus on “big-picture” editing, including stages of self-editing; focus; keeping the writer out of the narrative; editing the writing’s overall structure, organization, and flow; and improving major and minor subdivisions of written genealogical narratives, including paragraphing. Part 2 will focus on “nitty-gritty” editing, including capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling, word choice, and reducing word count.

Editing Your Own Work – Part 1

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Genealogists write. Their written narratives include stories of ancestral families, biographies of individual ancestors, and explanations supporting genealogical proofs. For their writing to succeed, genealogists—like all effective writers—repeatedly self-edit everything they write. The process results in polished products that the genealogist’s readers will understand, enjoy, and cherish. Emphasizing genealogical narrative, these two webinars will addresses the self-editing process. Part 1 will focus on “big-picture” editing, including stages of self-editing; focus; keeping the writer out of the narrative; editing the writing’s overall structure, organization, and flow; and improving major and minor subdivisions of written genealogical narratives, including paragraphing. Part 2 will focus on “nitty-gritty” editing, including capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling, word choice, and reducing word count.

Wed, May 22 2024: 0:00 UTC

1:13:08

French Emigrants: They Were Not All Huguenots, or Nobles, or from Alsace-Lorraine

Anne Morddel, CG

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French Emigrants: They Were Not All Huguenots, or Nobles, or from Alsace-Lorraine

One of the great difficulties for people researching their French immigrant ancestors’ roots is that so little is known outside of France about when and why the French left their country. This dearth of knowledge has led many family historians of the 19th century to presume Huguenot, noble émigré or Alsace-Lorraine ancestry for any ancestor with a French name. The supposition became a family legend that then became a research frustration as more recent family historians attempt to prove what was never more than a misguided supposition. This webinar looks at the many waves of French migration, as well as the three mentioned in the title, from the 17th to the 20th centuries. The historical reasons for when, why and to where they emigrated will provide the key points to bear in mind when conducting research. The bibliography, in English and French, contains not only books and articles concerning French emigration but a list of websites to aid the researcher.

French Emigrants: They Were Not All Huguenots, or Nobles, or from Alsace-Lorraine

Anne Morddel, CG

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Tue, April 16 2024: 16:00 UTC

1:11:43

Maternal Threads Unwoven: Identifying Margareta’s Mother in 18th Century Sweden

Jill Morelli, CG, CGL

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Maternal Threads Unwoven: Identifying Margareta’s Mother in 18th Century Sweden

In spite of birth entries for Margareta's five siblings in Hishult, there was no record of her birth in the parish. Tax records quickly identified the father, and revealed multiple moves within a narrow span of time; however, identification of the mother remained elusive. No witnesses to births of the children provided clues; no household examinations existed. Coupling the understanding of broad context (naming patterns, inheritance laws, the calendar shift, etc.) with mtDNA and documentary evidence, the mother was identified and the lack of a records was explained.