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This talk will lay out how 25 years’ worth of journalism experience has helped to guide the speaker as a genealogist and taught her to conduct productive searches. We’ll talk about using the “Law and Order” method (follow the “dun duns!”) to track down information and how relying on a simple principle like Occam’s Razor – that the most likely scenario is the least complicated – can help you get further in your searching. Using the scheme of a logic puzzle, we’ll go over pitfalls like not blindly using Ancestry hints, assessing the credibility of sources, not being wedded to spelling, and why genealogy is like playing Concentration: you always have to remember the cards you’ve seen and turned over.
The program is free for paid members and $5 for non-members (applied to JGSMD membership fee) after their first meeting. Please check our web site at www.jgsmd.org for late updates and for the time, location, and program of future meetings.
See our past programs here.
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Please visit our programs page for details on our 2013-2014
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