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Avoiding “Pinball Genealogy”
DearMYRT coined the phrase “pinball genealogy” in a recent post. When I first saw the title (and before reading the post) I came up with my own definition: not having any type of research plan in place...
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Research Plan for Understanding the Loyalists
As a follow-up to the previous post about avoiding pinball genealogy through the use of research plans, I have created a research plan to learn more about the Loyalists so I can better understand...
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Asking Questions
I give a talk on social history that uses Levi Savage as a case study. I want participants to think about one of their ancestors and how to learn about the social history surrounding that person. One...
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Asking Questions of your Documents
I recently attended a weeklong workshop on analyzing historic cookbooks. We studied a variety of cookbooks from England and America from the 1400s to the early 1900s. Barbara Wheaton, a noted cookbook...
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