Have you ever written a proof argument for your genealogical research? I know the Genealogical Proof Standard incorporates writing a proof argument - a soundly based conclusion that others can follow. I try to do exhaustive research, citing the sources behind the facts attached to individuals in my tree. However, I've never written a detailed proof argument. …
Category: Genealogy Proof
Marriage Bond Mystery
Do you have documents in your genealogy files with incomplete citations. Congratulations if your answer was no! Unfortunately, I have documents with partial citations. One set of those documents is four marriage bonds involving Crawford family members from Kentucky in the 1790s. Mary Crawford consent to marry James Sellers given by Rebekah Crawford on 19 …
Research Logs
Do you have one task that 'genealogy experts' recommend that you just don't seem to be able to tackle? For me, that tends to be a research log. Even though I have a 'research log' from my early days of research, I haven't been consistent with keeping that log -- especially with Internet searching. And, …
Identifying Parents
Have you had a set of parents for an ancestor in your tree for years when you discover another researcher has a different set of parents? I recently made that discovery for my ancestor Sarah Rush Briles (KP93-T9C) on Family Search. Seeing this other set of parents made me question whether I had made a …
Is It Fake News?
Have you ever heard anything that sounded too good to be true? Have you ever believed something to only find out that Snopes.com says it is false? I know I have -- both in my Facebook timeline and in my genealogy. Thus, when I saw that there were parents for my ancestor, James Crawford on …
Analyzing Sources
I recently have been working on a 'go over' for my 2nd great grandfather, George Mentzer. In the process, I utilized Scrivener. I had probably heard about Scrivener, but when I saw it mentioned in the recent Twitter #genchat, I decided to try it. In the process of learning more about Scrivener and genealogy, I …
Research Notes
If research notes are published in a blog post, how would one connect them to a person (or persons) in a tree?
Documenting Parent-Child Relationships
Today, I had another researcher ask about my 'ChildParent' events associated with Nancy Jane McCormick. That event is a fact type that I created. I created this fact type because I was used to using a similar fact type in The Master Genealogist (TMG). In TMG, I used the dau-bio and son-bio tag types. The …
Don’t Just Copy – Give Credit
I've been doing genealogy for some time and have been willing to share my info -- even publicly on the web. Unfortunately, when I find my work posted by someone else without giving me credit or even contacting me, I get perturbed. Today, I ran across my work saved as a story for Mary Thurston. …
Land on Sugar Creek / Mary Crawford
This indenture made this 23 day of March and year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred ninety one between Richard Cave and Elizabeth his wife of the county of Woodford and District of Kentucky of the one part and Mary Crawford of the County of Madison and District aforesaid of the other part witnesseth …