Education is always a good thing, including in genealogy, of which Randy Seaver is reminding us tonight for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission: Impossible! music), is:
1. What was your favorite genealogy learning experience this past month? In-person program? Online Webinar? YouTube video? Blog post? Social media item? Family history story?
2. Share your favorite genealogy learning experience in your own blog post or in a Facebook, SubStack, or BlueSky post. Leave a link on this blog post to help us find your post.
I think my favorite genealogy learning experience during the past month was an online presentation offered by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library. Danielle Pritchett gave a presentation on "Navigating the Slave Schedules" in honor of Juneteenth occurring this month. It was a realistic approach to using the slave schedules, and she emphasized that you cannot identify someone directly on those schedules, which were part of the census enumerations in 1850 and 1860. You have to do a lot of research to justify identifying someone on a schedule as a specific person. I definitely enjoyed the presentation.
Oh, that sounded like a great one. I looked to see if it was recorded, but I didn't find that.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, it was not recorded. But the attendees will be receiving the presentation slides, so that's nice.
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