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Have you ever found yourself searching for the same regional map, historical timeline, or website over and over again? Whether you are a genealogy hobbyist or a professional, we all have those “wait, where did I find that?” moments. A genealogy Personal Reference Guide (PRG), also called a Locality Guide, is a compiled study guide …
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The RLP Week #5 research planning assignment felt very satisfying to me as I compiled the elements from previous assignments into my research plan. My husband and I were on a family history trip for over a week, so I went to the FamilySearch Library the day before we left. I wouldn’t be able to …
Locality research is all about gaining knowledge of the region, its history, geography, laws, customs, and repositories. It’s also essential to collect links to online record sets and information about offline record sets. We gather all of this important information into a locality research guide, also called a research reference guide or a quick reference …
Overview of Source Analysis The Source Analysis step in the Research Like a Pro (RLP) process entails evaluating the reliability of the sources, their information (or the informant), and the evidence created. Source analysis helps us correlate our research findings and make solid conclusions. Here are the three essential components of source analysis. SOURCES The …
In Research Like a Pro this week, we learned about creating a genealogy timeline in Airtable for the Source Analysis step and about the Source Citations step. As a reminder, here are the elements of the Research Like a Pro process Timelines Building a genealogy timeline is a fantastic way to analyze known information and …
I’m so excited to be a peer group leader in Family Locket’s Research Like a Pro Study Group this fall. I’m carving out time to work on a long-standing brick wall on my husband’s line. His 5th great-grandfather, John Stokes (GQKY-8MT) was born about 1778, possibly in Lunenburg, Virginia. During the study group, I’m hoping …
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