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Monday, March 31, 2014

Methodology Monday (NYGBR) with hair and William Mackey

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Nineteenth-century American young women often made "hair scrapbooks," preserving locks of hair from friends and relatives along wi...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Analyzing too much information with William Flint (1815-1878)

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Often we have to eke out one precious fact at a time by analyzing and correlating terse and scattered records. But in the case of the agr...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Methodology Monday with Elder Henry Hait (NYGBR)

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Methodology is not always rocket science. It can involve dealing with many difficulties, each one small in itself but cumulatively daunting....
Thursday, March 20, 2014

URLs in citations, a conversation

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HEALTH WARNING: If you are allergic to intelligent discussion of specifics of source citation, please discontinue reading now. Follow any li...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Methodology Monday in three dimensions

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My friend and colleague Cathi Desmarais has produced an excellent metaphor for the dilemma every genealogist faces when we size up the evi...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Top Eight MWM Posts All-Time

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The eight most popular posts to date on this blog are not necessarily my personal favorites, but that's OK. I compiled this list, in the...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Methodology Monday in NGSQ: Tracking Tatums

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Pamela Strother Downs serves up a Southern-style methodology treat in the current issue of the NGS Quarterly . Carefully proceeding from a ...