Rotating the image to see what was written on this “blue line” page in a record book, it read Certified from the Chester Monthly Meeting. It was a Quaker Record where my Grandfather is listed, along with my Dad and his siblings. The first Hint I followed, keeping in mind I am trying to prepare for a presentation and not doing research, I found this record. I then proceeded to upload and sync this small database (52 people) to Ancestry to start to receive hints from their records. The Justification being “Was present at the event, age 6, but will need other documents to prove this fact”. I walked through the 4 Quality measures for Rating a Source and the Justification for the rating I chose. My purpose was to expand the information for the three people in this new database, while crafting a First Hand Knowledge Citation.īecause my genealogy program has a Fact, Citation, Rating system, as described in the book, Evidence Explained, by Elizabeth Shown Mills, I demonstrated that as well. My dad, brother, and I were all Baptized on the same day. The kicker was that I had First Hand Knowledge of that event. I added that I wanted to add a new Fact / Event for my father and described my dad’s baptism, on a specific date, in a specific church. Why stop? To talk about Citing your Source and to create a Research Log on what I had just done. I talked about entering myself and my parents into that database and my next slide, in the presentation was STOP. I was preparing a presentation for a recent Genealogy Conference and wanted to demonstrate how to “begin with what you know” entry into a new Genealogy database.
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