March 25 Legacy Webinar

Legacy's webinar this week will be presented by Chris Staats. He will be discussing how to analyze the records you locate to determine relationships even though they are not explicitly stated in the information. He says the presentation is geared toward intermediate level researchers. Visit www.familytreewebinars.com to learn more or to register to watch the webinar in real time. Legacy's description of the presentation follows:

Where Does It Say That? Learning to Love Indirect Evidence

"Direct evidence, the sort of evidence that completely answers a research question by itself, is often scarce. Without any documents telling us exactly what we want to know, how do we identify relationships that might not be stated explicitly, resolve conflicts between records, and arrive at sound genealogical conclusions? By collecting, analyzing, and correlating indirect evidence of course! The Henry McGinnis family of 19th century rural Pennsylvania provides a good example of using mostly indirect evidence to reconstruct a family which left precious little for descendants to work with."