Vol. 22, No. 26 — July 5, 2017
Using Negative Evidence to Prove Relationships |
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There are brick walls in genealogy, and then there are black holes. Sometimes, you get to an area where the records were either destroyed, or were never kept in the first place, and it’s next to impossible to get around the barrier and still have a family line with any degree of certainty to it. Without records, all you will be doing is guessing, or relying on someone else’s online tree with
no listed sources and dubious truthfulness. Or, will you? Believe it or not, it is possible to add generations to a family tree line that has fallen into the abyss. You don’t necessarily need records to do it. What you need is negative evidence. What is negative evidence? Read More
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What to Do if Your Research Isn’t Getting Any Results |
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As any experienced genealogist knows, some family lines yield information much more readily than others. You might find record after record on one line leading you all the way back to the first immigrant to America and beyond. Another line may be full of brick walls and cause you to work hard for just a trickle of information. Once in a while, the information seems to stop coming at all on a
line. This is naturally quite frustrating to genealogists, but it doesn’t have to be the end of your research on that line. Here’s what to do if your research isn’t getting any results... Read More
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The Biggest Genealogy Research Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make |
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As a genealogist, you certainly want to be sure your research is accurate. Mistakes made in your work, whether you publish it or not, will be perpetuated throughout the generations by whoever uses your work as a reference. Not only that, but you want your work to be accurate for your own sake, too. If you are doing genealogy, you want to know you are getting the true stories of your
ancestor’s lives. You also want to have confidence you are tracing the correct family lines. There is nothing more frustrating to a genealogist (other than a stubborn brick wall) than to spend months, or even years researching a family line, only to discover that a mistake was made somewhere and the line is not your own after all.
The good news is that genealogy mistakes can be avoided, and you can have the confidence you need to know your research is as accurate as it can be based on the information you’ve discovered. These are the biggest genealogy research mistakes and how you can avoid them... Read More
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Is It Art or Just a Gimmick? |
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So many discussions surrounding photography come back to that old chestnut: What is art, exactly? It is impossible to define art and in fact, I would say that it is against the very nature of art to try and define it. However, there are a few things that seem to fall less in the category of art, mainly because these things don’t have thought, vision or inspiration behind
them.
Often, these things are merely techniques or methods that have become so overused that they are now a gimmick. In other words, artists merely use a particular technique to create something that seems unusual or shocking at first glance but upon closer inspection, the actual work seems to have no meaning or it doesn’t move a broad selection of viewers to think more deeply on the “art” that
they are looking at.
The difference between art and gimmicks that are mimicking art are difficult to understand, even for people who have been enmeshed with the trade for decades. Allow me to explore this topic more deeply and perhaps we can all come away with some insights as to when something is actually artistic and when a work is just using a gimmick to draw a quick
look... Read More
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