tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2394184517128570144.post8832221020181453747..comments2024-02-19T01:54:37.404-08:00Comments on Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog: Analyze This! Pattern Recognition in GenealogyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2394184517128570144.post-69385263618613556702014-05-16T07:33:14.083-07:002014-05-16T07:33:14.083-07:00Good points. Thorough research is necessary to bri...Good points. Thorough research is necessary to bring out patterns; sometimes it's sufficient, sometimes something more is required.Harold Hendersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12217640113047709249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2394184517128570144.post-88859005138503546982014-05-16T06:48:35.267-07:002014-05-16T06:48:35.267-07:00"How do you ferret out patterns in your work?..."How do you ferret out patterns in your work?" is an extremely useful question. A coyote knows that the prairie dog town has a number of different access tunnels.<br /><br />Patterns in one's work is not limited to patterns in documentation. Learning from others' methods includes evaluation of possible mistaken assumptions and applying them to one's own approaches.<br /><br />A viewer of a list of debtors to the estate of a person who died in a city in Alabama may assume that the debtors also lived there -- but did the decedent just recently move there from (say) central New York?<br /><br />A reader of a list of a decedent's heirs who were grantees of a KY deed asked, "who were the children?" not bothering to do the follow-up research as to identities of the listed heirs, and came up with a partially wrong answer. Thus a published article listed a nonexistent daughter rather than a widow who was second wife to the deceased. The author was not aware of the second wife and failed to do the research in 3 states to learn her identity.<br />Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2394184517128570144.post-58028100058803126192014-05-16T05:23:03.636-07:002014-05-16T05:23:03.636-07:00You really can't see it?????You really can't see it?????Harold Hendersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12217640113047709249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2394184517128570144.post-3043503254959473352014-05-15T10:00:45.351-07:002014-05-15T10:00:45.351-07:00Hard enough going back and forth between the rabbi...Hard enough going back and forth between the rabbit and the duck. Now you want us to find a ferret??? (Sorry. Couldn't resist.)Judy G. Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684727163817159899noreply@blogger.com