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Class I: Reviewing What You Have Found

• focus is on using only Direct Line research

• reasons for checking your work

*copying errors from documents

*no research log to follow how you found a document (challenging to reinvent what you reviewed)

*verbal stories you accepted as fact

*not identifying all siblings

*not checking all Census records thoroughly

• after a quick review of these issues, the focus will be on finding Marriage Records

 

Class II: Searching for Divorce Records

Consider the different time periods, state rules, conflicting information you have found, and what places you need to check for records. When your genealogy has questionable gaps of time and relocation happens in places unknown, assumptions are made and family stories become the accepted reason not to search. There could be more to the story than is being told.

 

Class III: Matching Records, Dates, and Stories

Do You Have a Bigamist? This can happen when documents and dates are recorded and you have found what you were looking for, but you don’t stop to think about the timeline of the dates and places. Many second and third marriages often have gaps of time with sparse records. Learn how to analyze what you have, consider doing more research, and step back to review what it might reveal. Bigamy was more common than we assume but not acknowledged without public pressure.

 

Presenter: Cindy Linton (nee Foreman), Genealogist

Cindy is steeped in the history and skills required to excel as a genealogist and teacher. She moved to Texas in 1982 and currently lives in Wimberley. A member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, past president of the Austin Genealogy Society, and vice president of the Wimberley Valley Genealogy Society, Cindy is currently involved with the Central Texas-area Interactive Genealogy Group and continues her own family research.