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Standards and GPS
A standard is like a yard stick. It is an measure of comparison for a quantity or quality; a criterion. As a matter of fact, a yard is a standard, as is an ounce, a dram, a meter, an acre, a degree, or...
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Genealogical Proof Standard & The Reasonably Exhaustive Search
Last posting, I began a deeper meditation on the first step of the Genealogical Proof Standards which reads: conduct a reasonably exhaustive search in reliable sources for all information that is or...
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Genealogical Proof Standard: A Visual Map
I just discovered a website that I plan to put on my list of favorites. The site is owned by Mark Turner from Scottsdale, AZ (USA). Mark is a software designer by day and an avid genealogist every...
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Genealogical Proof Standard and Reliable Sources
In her book, Evidence Explained, Elizabeth Shown Mills wrote that the most important reason to assess the reliability of sources is so that one can reach “the most reliable conclusions.”[1] Critical...
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Genealogical Proof Standard and Reliable Sources (Part 2)
With other projects and priorities now behind me, I can continue this series of meditations on GPS. Restating Step 1 of the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS), we are to conduct a reasonably exhaustive...
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A Milestone in Blogging & Meditations
Once in a cycle the comet Doubles its lonesome track. Enriched with the tears of a thousand years, Aeschylus wanders back. —John G. Neihardt [1] When my mother died in 1991, the director at the...
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Genealogical Proof Standards & Reliable Sources (sidebar)
In my last essay[1,2], I mentioned that I wanted to parse the forms of sources that we, as family historians, may encounter in our research. I will do that, but first wanted to write a small “side bar”...
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Maximizing Research & Time at the Library
Maximizing Research & Time at the Library The strategy recommended in the above link is a 5-step process. It parallels, in concept, the strategy used by professional researchers whose expertise...
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Family Oral History Projects
I have been lecturing recently on the topic of “Oral History for the Genealogist.” When I get the opportunity, I like to ask my audience to give me their definition for “oral history.” I explain that...
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Using Memoirs and Oral Histories in Writing Family History
Remembering Mammaw While many of us earnestly research and write of ancestors long buried, the family history writer can leave a legacy of stories to future generations through memoirs and oral history...
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