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Program Description

Rue Lynn Galbraith facilitates our next book in our book club series, Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques by George G. Morgan and Drew Smith.

The book covers how to use innovative methods to unearth hard-to-find ancestors. Each chapter will provide professional advice on formatting a research strategy, understanding the details you discover, keeping careful track of your data, analyzing the evidence, and developing hypotheses.

DateChapter Covered
19 JanuaryIntroduction, Chapter 1: Examine the Brick Wall in Detail
16 FebruaryChapter 2: Use Brute Force
16 MarchChapter 3: Go Around the Brick Wall
20 AprilChapter 4: Talk to a Friend
18 MayChapter 5: Use Crowdsourcing
15 JuneChapter 6: Apply Technological Solutions
20 JulyChapter 7: Hire a Demolition Expert
17 AugustChapter 8: Rest up and Attack the Brick Wall Another Time
21 SeptemberChapter 9: Put the Techniques to Work
Schedule and Chapters for 2022 Book Club

Our Speaker

Rue Lynn Galbraith

Rue Lynn was reared in Blanding, a small rural town in Southeastern Utah. His interest in genealogy began as a child, as he sat on his mother’s lap looking over a large volume of family records.  In his youth he began to copy pedigree charts and family group records into his own Family History book, and …

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