The next meeting of the Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will focus on doing "Reasonably Exhaustive" research on Saturday,September 23, 2023, from 11am to 1pm, Zoom only. Free and open to all.
Please register at the above link. A Zoom link will be sent before the meeting.
Pose any questions that you may have for the presenters when you register
What is reasonably exhaustive genealogical research? According to the Genealogy Standards, Genealogists attempt to collect all information potentially relevant to the questions they investigate for all evidence that might answer a research question about an identity, relationship, event, or situation.
We'll start with what we know about an individual or a family. Using a known name, place and time, we create a research question. The focus is usually finding out who the people were and who was related to them. The problem we want to solve determines what the search looks like.
Many sources may give us clues to answer our research question. But we really want to find original records provided by people who are close as possible to events in question. Then we need to evaluate what we have found to see how well it correlates with information we already know. If the sources conflict with each other we may need to do additional research to arrive at a conclusion that answers our research question.
Jerry Carbone and Wayne Blanchard will present some case studies that follow the procedures to do a reasonably exhaustive search.
The Windham County (VT.) Genealogy Interest Group is an informal organization whose members are dedicated to genealogy education, research, and best practices. Meetings are held every other month on Zoom. Many of these sessions were recorded and are available on the WCGIG YouTube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpnDZOgRIhTVRWysbesYpzA, which cover topics as: improving your search results in FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com; using family tree software; navigating the crowd sourced cemetery database, Find A Grave; using land records for genealogy research; using AmericanAncestors.org, the database of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; finding people in the newly released 1950 U.S. Census.
WCGIG is also supported by Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro, VT. and Rockingham Free Library in Bellows Falls, VT. with use of their Zoom accounts, publicity, and use of facilities when in person meetings are warranted.
For more information please contact windhamcountygig@gmail.com.
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