Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Prove Unrecorded Events

Information hidden below the surface or totally absent helps researchers reconstruct events, identities, and relationships that no record specifies. Such hidden information is indirect or negative evidence. This session discusses the qualities of both kinds of evidence, which are easily misunderstood. It also describes uses of indirect and negative evidence, and it gives examples of applying  those uses to solving genealogical problems.

 

Presented live at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and sponsored by the Board for Certification of Genealogists.