Nicole Elder Dyer on Research Like a Pro (Part 1) | Unrehearsed Research #12

Nicole Elder Dyer joins this episode with a case she's pursuing for a proof argument. She's seeking record evidence of the connection between a son and his mother to help conclude a DNA case. Nicole and her mother Diana Elder use and teach a genealogy process called Research Like a Pro. In this episode, part 1 of 2, Nicole shows the first few steps of Research Like a Pro: 1. Formulate a question 2. Analyze sources 3. Locality research 00:00 Intro 2:38 Problem description 4:00 Analyzing your pedigree and picking a research question 5:32 Writing a research objective 7:17 Creating a summary of known facts, transferring facts into an AirTable timeline 7:42 Writing a citation 9:10 Analyzing a census record 15:15 Cluster/FAN club research 23:45 Check background information, create a locality guide 24:28 Finding more in what you already have 25:25 Locality research 26:37 Headstone photo found in wife's Findagrave profile 29:43 Which locality to research first? 31:50 Analyzing a county's records 33:17 Analyzing a county's boundary changes 37:18 Writing a working hypothesis 39:12 Why write a hypothesis? 40:43 Building a profile for an unknown person 41:00 Conclusion #genealogy #familyhistory