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Emily Croom's Lecture Topics
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1. Gooly Girl and Fryed Ham: Building Your Case, A Genealogist's Tool Kit
(NEW in 2006)
What do you do with all the evidence you gather? How can you put it together to make a case? How can you tell if you've solved your case? A case study illustrates the process. (PowerPoint presentation.) |
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2. The Other Half of the Story: Researching Female Ancestors (Revised in 2007)
Women’s status in history sometimes requires us to use combined strategies to research female ancestors. With careful planning and evaluation, the use of contemporary records, and the practice of “cluster genealogy,” genealogists can identify many elusive females and their kin. Case studies illustrates the process. (PowerPoint presentation.)
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3. Roadblocks to My Research
(NEW topic in 2008)
Strong curiosities send some of us off on tangents to research people who grab our interest, even if they’re not related to us. Detours may be momentary, to focus on a name or document that suddenly demands notice. Whether my trigger is a short attention span or frustration, I fall prey to these distractions frequently and will share some of the gems I’ve found along the way. (PowerPoint presentation) |
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4. An Entertaining Look at Genealogy
Anyone who thinks that genealogy is boring and stuffy hasn’t seen records such as the ones used to illustrate this presentation. This is a light-hearted look at genealogy for newcomers, non-genealogists who wonder what the excitement is all about, and genealogists who are already “hooked.” |
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