Seeing the Patterns: Organize, Visualize, & Evaluate the Evidence

We gather lots of information, data, and evidence as we research our ancestors. The difficulty lies in analyzing the information, correlating it to data gathered from multiple sources, determining patterns, identifying holes in our research, and understanding the evidence. Organizing data using timelines, chronologies, charts, tables, and other assemblages can help us compare, correlate, and analyze evidence. This presentation will offer multiple ways of visualizing data to make it easier to analyze and evaluate evidence, discover gaps and missing information, see how pieces of the puzzle fit together, and uncover new paths for research.