discovering your family history through cluster genealogy
Funny how things sometimes turn out different than you plan. Thursday I was supposed to give my Research Guides presentation at RootsTech 2018, but a flu bug decided he had other plans for me. 🙁 Fortunately, my Ancestry colleague and friend Juliana Szucs stepped in and saved the day giving the presentation. You can find... Continue Reading →
I'm preparing for my RootsTech talk Research Guides: Researching Everything But People. If you are at RootsTech, the talk is at 4:30, March 1st in room 250A I'm going to show you how to gather bits and pieces of information so that you can create a research guide about places that will remind you where... Continue Reading →
One of the many great things about writing a blog about your ancestors, is you sometimes find family members who have something to share with you. And every time it happens, it fills me with delight. If you've been following me since the beginning you might remember my article about the 8 Payne children who... Continue Reading →
Over the last year or so, I've been changing the way I look at my family history. If you've read Mulling and Pondering My Genealogy Toolkit or maybe Clusters: What Do You Need To Research? you will have an idea of my adjusted focus. The first cluster our ancestors lived in is always the family... Continue Reading →
Citations are an art and there is usually more than one way to correctly write one. And given that I am obsessed with discovering clusters in my genealogy I took a good long look at how I could write my citations in the U.S. Census to maybe reveal some new information. Now, we all know,... Continue Reading →
So the more I ponder and the more I mull, it seems there is more than one type of cluster you can put your ancestor in. Clusters that are a single event. Signing a petition is a single event that creates a cluster. Being enumerated in 1830 in York County is a multi day event... Continue Reading →
It’s easy to skip those early census records, they just have that one name, often unreadable and a lot of tick marks. But you will find the cluster of people living in the household, likely family members. So how do you pull the clusters of out these documents and associate names with the tick marks.... Continue Reading →
I have 29 men, some I think I know, some I have no idea. The petition submitted to the SC General Assembly was written in 1834, and according to the SC Archives, these men are inhabitants of York County, SC. So it seems reasonable to look in York County and the census seems a likely... Continue Reading →