Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is about Diana’s Dillard project. For the RLP with DNA study group, she is exploring the possibility that a cluster of DNA matches from her second cousin’s network graph are related through Cynthia Dillard’s parents. The MRCA of the cluster appears to be Elijah Dillard. In this assignment, Diana followed her research plan and recorded her searches in Airtable. Her research log helped her organize many deeds in Pike County, Georgia, as well as FAN club members. She also used GWorks and the FamilySearch Tree in descendancy view to find additional matches whose trees didn’t go back as far as the Dillards.
Transcript
Nicole (0s):
This is Research Like a Pro episode 178 RLP LP with DNA study group Research Logging. Welcome to Research Like a Pro a Genealogy Podcast about taking your research to the next level, hosted by Nicole Dyer and Diana Elder accredited genealogy professional. Diana and Nicole are the mother-daughter team at FamilyLocket.com and the creators of the Amazon bestselling book, The Research Like a Pro a Genealogists Guide. I’m Nicole co-host of the podcast join Diana and me as we discuss how to stay organized, make progress in our research and solve difficult cases.
Nicole (44s):
Let’s go, Hi everyone. Welcome to Research Like a Pro.
Diana (50s):
Hi, Nicole, how are you doing today?
Nicole (52s):
Doing well. I’m anxious to hear all about your research. How’s it going? It is
Diana (57s):
Going well. I’ve been writing the report this week and as you know, writing the report is awesome. It just helps you to clarify things so much. And so I’m excited to talk about that in the next episode and kind of reveal some of the fun things. We’ll talk about some of the things that I’ve been finding in the research today, but it really is in the report writing and all comes together. It’s funny
Nicole (1m 20s):
Now that is having to put those sentences together in narrative format. Makes you think about the research in a more detailed way.
Diana (1m 28s):
It’s funny because we say that all the time and people hear us say that, but then when they do the study group and then they actually do it, they’re like, wow, that was amazing. So it is really fun to see others discover that as well.
Nicole (1m 43s):
Yeah. And it just shows how important the last part of the genealogical proof standard is that you have to have a written conclusion if you’re going to achieve genealogical proof, because without that, you can’t build your case,
Diana (1m 56s):
Right? How can anybody know what you’ve done unless you have it written out? How can you know what you’ve done exactly? How many times have we done projects? And we had this idea in the back of our head, how everything fits and then we leave it along for a year till we come back. And we have to do that again because we didn’t write it down. Hope I’m not the only one that’s done that.
Nicole (2m 15s):
Nope. You’re not. Well for announcements. We have the study group registration beginning next week, December 13th, for our Research Like a Pro with DNA study group that will be in the spring of next year, starting February 16th and going for 13 weeks might be 14 weeks with a break for RootsTech. And then also an extra week for researching since we usually just have one week for the research logging step. But I think we planned it so that it will be two weeks. So that’ll be nice.
Diana (2m 45s):
Oh yeah. That’s something that we get a request for every study group. Can we please have an extra week to do more research? So we’re going to be able to do that now with the group being in the spring.
Nicole (2m 56s):
Yeah. And then we’ll have Research Like a Pro, that study group will be in the fall with just traditional documentary research and starting in September. And that one’s a bit of a shorter study group. If you would like to join us as a peer group leader, we’d love to have you, and you can join our study group without the registration costs, if you’re volunteering as a peer group leader. So that’s a wonderful opportunity. You just need to share with us a report that you’ve written and your experience and kind of what you’d like to be a peer group leader. And then of course, please join our newsletter for coupons. We’re having a holiday sale right now. So make sure you get on our email newsletter list so you can see those
Diana (3m 33s):
Great. Yeah. It’s always fun in December to run a sale and let everybody pick out a Christmas present for themselves. Right. So true. Sometimes our family doesn’t know that we want these types of things for Christmas. So, yeah.
Nicole (3m 49s):
Well today we’re talking about research logging. So last week we went over Diana’s research plan for the Dillard research project. And the next step is to follow your plan and log your activities in your research log. And this is like a thrilling part of the process. You get to search databases, look at records, go page by page, through courthouse documents, looking for that piece of evidence that really helps your case. So what if you don’t find what you’re looking for? Do you record that search or do you keep clicking around in search of that elusive perfect record, following your research plan and keeping a research log really does help you to avoid this problem, the bright, shiny object chase when we’re working in a DNA project, it’s just as important to track what we’ve looked at and what we’ve done.
Nicole (4m 39s):
So we’re going to talk about that today. And Diana’s going to talk with us about her using her airtable research log to track her DNA research and her documentary work. So let’s do a little review of your project first, Diana.
Diana (4m 53s):
Okay. So I’m returning to my Cynthia Dillard Royston. She has a mystery father and you know, this happens a lot when we are working back in time. She’s my third great-grandmother. So I’m looking for a fourth great-grandfather so DNA is relevant. And the only problem is that sometimes the records are not so great when we’re working early 1800s in Alabama and Georgia. And so that’s why I’m turning to DNA because other things were not working. I have very fortunate to have the DNA of my second cousin twice removed Victor Parker. And he is Cynthia’s great-grandson.
Diana (5m 33s):
He has very long generations. So he is really unique. And if you have someone like this in your family who maybe their father was older when he was born and maybe his father was older when he was born, I’m going to just call them super testers because they receive more DNA of those ancestors for their back. So I would have only received about 3% or less from Cynthia, but Victor will have received about 12%. I mean, how amazing is that, that somebody has that from an ancestor who was born in 1815?
Nicole (6m 9s):
Yeah. When you said 3% or less, I was thinking, you know, it could be 3% or more too. It’s just so random. The recombination, some ancestors, you receive a lot of their DNA, others you receive hardly any. And then as you know, when you get even further back in your pedigree, you get zero from some and more from others. So it’s, it’s just challenging to know if you’re going to have DNA inherited from that ancestors in order to find relevant cousin matches, but 12.5% is a great probability that you’ll find matches that match on that side of the family for Victor. So super.
Diana (6m 46s):
Yeah, it really is. And I do have other cousins on the same line and couple of them are a generation closer also, but they did not receive as much DNA through this line as I did, you know, from what I can tell with the matches. So you are right. It is really random. Yeah. Well, I’m, I’m working on this project in phases. I’ve had several phases, I’ve done a lot of documentary research to eliminate Dillard candidates for Cynthia’s father. And I have done some analysis to find a cluster of DNA matches to research. And so in that phase, I was able to find this cluster through a network graph of a possible brother for Cynthia.
Diana (7m 31s):
And his name is Elijah Dillard. He was born 1814, 1816, depending on which sets this you’re looking at. And he was born in Georgia, just like Cynthia. He died in 1886 in Alabama. She had moved out to Texas and died out in Texas in 1882. I was really excited to find Elijah as a possible brother because of this cluster of DNA matches where he is the, the MRCA most recent common ancestor because he’s a man and I have more records, hopefully that will give me some clues.
Nicole (8m 9s):
Yeah, that’ll be great. So this part of the research process is following your plan and recording things in the research log. And with the DNA projects, we had started off using Google sheet or Excel spreadsheet to keep track of our research log. But then I came across airtable when I was working with the SLIG, Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy publicity committee and realized that it was a really good option for keeping track of complicated research projects, where, you know, you’re researching matches and finding their pedigrees and you have test takers and you need to know all about their family tree and you just have a lot of information to keep track of. So I started experimenting with using air table.
Nicole (8m 51s):
It’s a database and spreadsheet hybrid, and it’s main feature that I like is that it can connect one row or record from one of your tables to another of the tables in your database, so that you can describe information in the first table in another way. And describe more parts about that. So you can describe the correspondence you’ve had with the DNA match. You can describe the segments that are shared with the DNA match. You can describe a research that you’ve done about a DNA match and all of those are in separate tables, but they are all related. So it’s a relational database and you can go back and see the entry in your DNA match details table, as you also record correspondence with that person.
Nicole (9m 35s):
So, as I started out, I had different kinds of research logs in airtable as I was experimenting. And now the most recent one that we have is a big base with a lot of tables, with the ability to keep track of all kinds of different things like segments and locations and surnames and things and everything you might think of with a DNA research project. So you can go to Airtable universe and search for my name and then look at the different research log templates that I have there. And the DNA research log 2021 is the most recent one that I’ve done. And you can click on that template and make a copy of it to your own free table account and then play with it and see if you like it that most recent update to the DNA research log.
Nicole (10m 20s):
I created it to go along with our new book Research Like a Pro with DNA genealogists guide to finding and confirming ancestors with DNA evidence. So the book really explains how to use it. And so if you’re wondering, you know, the best way to, to use it, you should get our book.
Diana (10m 36s):
It’s really helpful to that chapter in the book just gives so many ideas of how to use the air table log. And I’m so grateful you discovered it and then taught me how to use it. At first, I was a little leery because I was so used to my Google sheet research log that I loved, but now with air table, there’s so many more things you can do with it that I love working with it. So I had set up my air table research lab at the beginning of this project, because the very first steps you are entering information in about the DNA match details and those people and the correspondence that you’re having with them. So I already had all of that filled out.
Diana (11m 18s):
And then the one of the next steps was to do the timeline. And I had a timeline table for both Cynthia and Elijah. I had separate timelines, so I could track all their life events. So my research log was well started by the time I finally got to working in the specific research log table. And this is where I added all my information as I was following my research plan. The fields are very similar. I mean, probably identical to the ones that I would use in the Google sheet, research log, you know, the person of interest, the record type date of the event, date of the search, the website, or repository, the URL, locality of the event, the source citation results, the fan club comments, the next step.
Diana (12m 7s):
So that sounds like a lot of different things to track. And if that’s not really your thing to track that much information, it’s very easy to hide those fields in the template or simply to delete them. And you can also add things. Sometimes I find I’m working in a project and I need to add a field, you know, just like any kind of a spreadsheet in air table. You can add whatever you need. So I did have quite a few things, but I use every single one of those fields.
Nicole (12m 35s):
Yeah. I love the ability to hide fields that I’m not using because sometimes it just helps to see everything closer together, but then you can easily unhide things and, and they can do that in a spreadsheet too. So it’s a great function in either place. One of the really great things about air table is the ability to group your records together. So in air table, the rows of a spreadsheet are called a record instead of a row. So you can group by different fields. So sometimes I will group all of my research by a locality, so I can see everything that I found from Hawkins county, Tennessee. And then I can go look further down in my log to see my grouping of everything I found from Fauquier county, Virginia.
Nicole (13m 19s):
And it, sometimes it’s just the way that I think about my research. I think about it in localities. So I like to see it like that. And then other times I want to group my research log by the person that it’s about. And so I have a field or column that has the name of the person who I’m researching and sometime that’s a DNA match and I’m trying to find their ancestors. And sometimes it’s my research subject, the ancestor that I’m trying to find the parents of. And sometimes it’s one of their children. And so I like to group my research log by those people as well. And then I can see all the research I’ve done about this one person and their records throughout their life and things. And then you can sort just like a spreadsheet you can sort in your air table base and you can see things in order, in reverse order, you can group and then sort you can sort and then sort again.
Nicole (14m 5s):
So there’s a lot of different things you can do. I love sorting by chromosome number and then my start point on my segments table, because then I can see kind of like a chromosome map, all of the segments that are shared on each chromosome in order.
Diana (14m 18s):
Well, that is really cool. I have not gotten to using segment data in the air table yet because all of my projects haven’t got to that phase yet. That’s really neat that you can do that. I’ll have to look at one of your samples. So I worked on my research log and I typically just start entering in information. And so, you know, seeing a lot of planned research, then I did some probate research. I did some court, then I went back to land. So I had my information entered in as I was doing it, you know, by date. And it was sort of mixed up. So it was really nice then when I was ready to analyze it, I just grouped it by record type.
Diana (14m 57s):
So all my land records appeared under that. And then I also sorted by date. So then all the land records were grouped together and then they were appearing chronologically, which really helped me to see the pattern of the different men who were recording deeds really, really helpful just to easily group and to sort, and then, as you were saying, locations is so nice too, because you liked to Dillard had several locations. He was in Macon county was in pike county. He was in Dale county barber. And so with all these different counties, that’s, he seemed to have had land actions, many places.
Diana (15m 43s):
I was able to, to remind myself of exactly what was going on in one locality and then having it sorted by date. I kids just have little mini timeline for Elijah within that locality. So really helpful going back and forth, sorting and grouping in different ways.
Nicole (16m 1s):
Yeah, that is great. And when you’re working with all this interact evidence, it’s a lot of people they keep track of and dates and places. So it’s nice to have it all out of your mind and into your log so that you don’t have to try to remember it yourself. You can just have it there to look at when you need to remember it. Yeah. So when you’re researching your brick wall ancestors, often the strategy that we have to do is to extend our research to the friends, associates and neighbors, the fans and air table is a great way to track these because you can link between tables. So you can link from your research log to a separate table of just a list of all the different fans.
Nicole (16m 43s):
And
Diana (16m 43s):
This is quite honestly one of my favorite things about air table, because I am typically working on projects where I have to use the fan club, whether it’s for myself or for my clients, and often I’m working in the south. And those are so key in trying to figure out, you know, we have this group of people here in Alabama and they’re from North Carolina. So which one of all the men are the same name of North Carolina is the one that is connected to the Alabama people. And so that van club sometimes can really clearly show the same group of people moving out. But again, that can be so difficult to track that information. And in the past, you know, in spreadsheets, I would put that in the column, but it wasn’t linked to show up on another table.
Diana (17m 30s):
So with air table, and now that field is linked to that table. So I have the field labeled fans and I had several entries in there and it was so nice because I was able to see when I looked over at my fan table that the same man, Isaac B Welch. It was named in both the land record for Elijah in the deed and the land patent for Elijah. So I’d put him in there as a fan because when you’re looking on the BLM website, bureau of land management website, and you’re searching land patents, you can click a little piece of that website that lets you search the people around.
Diana (18m 12s):
So you get the names of all the men who patented land around your key person. And so I will often put them in as the FANs for that person because they were neighbors. Right. And then it was fun when I was doing the research. And I discovered that this Isaac was in the deeds and that Elijah had sold him land. And it made perfect sense when I looked at those two things together, I thought, oh, okay. He was a neighbor when Elijah was ready to move, he just bought that adjoining land. So if I didn’t have that in my research log, and maybe wouldn’t have put those names together, you know, it’s just helps you to easily make those connections.
Nicole (18m 55s):
Great. I love using that feature of the land website and seeing all the people who lived around and how cool that you were able to connect Isaac Welch as somebody who appeared in multiple records as a neighbor.
Diana (19m 8s):
Yeah. And I’m not sure if it really has any bearing in this case, on the research, but perhaps that will, you know, down the road, maybe I will find another record with an Isaac Welch in a different county that will help me connect Elijah, perhaps in Georgia, there were a group of Welch’s that moved out together with Elijah. There’s so many unknowns in this project still. So I’m getting the information down and hoping that down the road, it will really help me to figure out how you like to and Cynthia connect and who their birth family was.
Nicole (19m 43s):
Yeah. And if you run out of records to search for Elijah, you can always go over and just see what Isaac Walter’s records say. Maybe they mentioned him, right. Or his family. Cool. What were your documentary research findings? Did you already tell us that or do you have more?
Diana (19m 58s):
I have some more fun things to tell you. I like to start out with documentary research, you know, to this point, I’ve already done some work in the DNA, just getting to this point. And so I was ready to dig into the documents and see what I could find about Elijah. And I had centered my research plan on the two counties where he was first and where he was last. So he had a land patent in Macon county and it showed that he was a resident there in 1848. And then he had some other counties in between. He had patented land in Del county and he’d resided in pike and barber counties.
Diana (20m 38s):
And then he died in pike. So I decided just to work on Macon and pike, because you can’t do everything, you know, your research plan, you have about five things and you can’t hit every single locality. So I narrowed it down and I decided to start with making county. And I was hoping to find a possible Dillard family that would connect with both Elijah and Cynthia and so interesting because as I was working in making county and the probate and the land and the court records, guess who I found
Nicole (21m 12s):
Another Dillard,
Diana (21m 12s):
I found all the family of George W. Dillard, who is the man that I had hoped was Cynthia’s father, because there were so many things that seem like they fit so well with her. And someone emailed me the Bible pages, and I disproved George as her father while the only Dillard family in Macon county in this time period was George’s family. And it was basically his children. So his son Francis had died in 1866 and he left a large estate file. So in the probate records and he named his brothers, his wife and his children, his heirs, he did not name Elijah or Cynthia.
Diana (21m 55s):
So another piece of negative evidence, but because I keep running across this family, I am just starting to wonder if maybe they are connected, but perhaps we’re cousins, nieces, nephews, something that they’re still connected to this family. Okay.
Nicole (22m 12s):
So funny that he was there, he wasn’t one that you had focused on for so long as Cynthia’s father and then, you know, researching your new connection, Elijah Dillard that you found through DNA, come across George again, fancy meeting you here, George.
Diana (22m 27s):
That’s exactly how I felt. I’m like how certify. I was hoping for a brand new person and I get Georgia, again, but
Nicole (22m 34s):
Okay. I guess it kind of shows there aren’t too many Dillard’s to be dealing with in these areas. So, you know, at least I don’t have tons and tons of people to
Diana (22m 43s):
That is true. And it was really nice because the Macon county land records included a deed index. And so in my research slag, I use that column and it’s so nice on air table. You can expand that little record. And so it appears larger on your screen. And I just typed into that, all the references to the Dillard’s, but the name there was both the grantor and the grantee index. So I did one whole collection of records where they were selling the land, you know, they were the grant or, and the one whole record for when they were buying the land. So anyway, they were all just mentioned in the index by first initial.
Diana (23m 25s):
And I saw E Dillard three times. And when I went to actually look up the record, it was Elijah and I was happy to know that it was Elijah. And it wasn’t another Dillard, like you said, and I was able to correlate all the other initials with those sons of George W Dillards. So I didn’t look up all the deeds for the George sons. I just looked up Elijah because there were so many, I think there were probably at least 20 records for them as grantors and 20, for them as grantees that had a lot of land dealings, which makes sense, because I remember that George had a lot of land patents.
Diana (24m 7s):
I think he was a land speculator. And a lot of the people did that when this land became open after the treaties and the creeks seeded the rest of that portion of Alabama, you see a lot of land speculators that are just going in and patenting the land and then reselling it. So I think George was in that category.
Nicole (24m 29s):
Cool. So you found three deeds for Elijah and they were just generic didn’t have anything special telling you about his origins?
Diana (24m 38s):
Unfortunately not, but I was able to put his movements together. So I was able to see that he patented the land and then he sold the land. Then he purchased this little bit that went with that patent and he sold that. So it helped me to put together his timeline of buying, selling, and patenting land and his residents. So that is always good. Just to get a little bit better idea.
Nicole (25m 4s):
Yeah. Was he residing there in that same county while he was buying and selling the land or did it say he lived somewhere else?
Diana (25m 9s):
He was a resident there for the Macon county records. So, you know, you had to live on the land generally to be able to patent it. So that makes sense. The interesting thing on the BLM website was that it said Macon/Lee. So Lee county was created from making an 1866. So that patent was originally granted in Macon, but now that land is in lake county. So I had do a little research to figure out why they were listing both of those localities. But then, you know, that actually shows me kind of the location of the land to,
Nicole (25m 50s):
So that was Macon county. What did you find in pike county
Diana (25m 55s):
Pike county was where you like to pretty much live the remainder of his life. We really don’t know where he was his early years. He was in his thirties. By the time he’s doing all this land patenting and selling. And he did marry in pike county. I previously found that that was in his timeline and he was in the 1880 census there. I had that and he was in the spring hill township. So I had all of that and I wanted to do some work in the county histories because sometimes those county history surprise you. And they’ll talk about the early settlers and where they came from. I’ve even seen them where they give a little biography of a prominent person and a little genealogy.
Diana (26m 38s):
So, you know, I always want to look at those. And the one I did find was by Margaret Pace Farmer called history of pike county. She published it in 1953 and it’s now digitized on FamilySearch. So I could look at it from home. It didn’t have an index, but it was organized by communities within pike county. And so, because I knew about spring hill, I looked at that area and I was able to get some information about the settlers. So she said that most of the early settlers were scotch Irish and origin from the Carolinas, but this was the 1830 settlers. And I know that Elijah didn’t go in there until later.
Diana (27m 18s):
And she says in spring hill, the first settlers came from Carolina then from Georgia, which makes sense because you’ve always said he was born in Georgia and are things I found from the county history was that the civil war didn’t have as much effect on pike county as other counties because they didn’t have a great many slaves. This was an area that was heavily forested and didn’t have the land that they could plant, you know, all the cotton. That was very interesting. And then there was a huge burst of population with the railroad, which is not surprising. So they only had 500 people. And then when the railroad came in in 1870 10 years later, by 1880, there were 3000 people.
Diana (28m 1s):
So I came into population explosion. Wow. The county history also gave me the names of some newspapers that I could expand the next phase of research to work in the newspapers that wasn’t in my plan for this space. But now I have an idea of something to do next. I also found some of the fan club members in that county history. So you’d like to, in the records, I had seen that he was connected to some of these people, the Grimes, the boot Wells and the Sanders. And so it was fun to see that they were in that county history is settlers. So even what to name him, gave me a lot of information about what it was like in pike county at the time they liked to live there.
Diana (28m 45s):
Well, that’s great. So another record that I had planned to search was this pike county death register. I had found in my locality portion of the project that pike county was recording births and deaths from 1881, which was so cool, like to died in 1886. So I hoped he’d be in this death register. Maybe it would name his parents, right. We were always hoping for that. So this was a digitized image on family search, and it was again index as E Dillard. And then actually, when I looked at the record, it was just easy Dillard. It didn’t have Elijah Dillard, but everything fit.
Diana (29m 27s):
It gave his exact date of death, six September 18, 86 and pike county that he was born in Alabama, which I don’t think is right. And he was born in Georgia and the informant was cm Carlyle who also informed for a lot of other things. So maybe it was the doctor. I’m not sure I need to research that informant, but he wasn’t a family member. As far as I could see any light. Joe was 68 years old cause of death not known. And his place of death was spring hill and he’s buried in the Hopewell church cemetery. So even though it didn’t reveal a lot of new information, at least I found that and there probably isn’t a death certificate. They weren’t issuing those, but just finding a death register notice was great in Alabama at this timeframe.
Nicole (30m 10s):
Yeah. That’s not very common to see that recorded in Southern states like that. So that’s a good find. And it is too bad it didn’t name his parents, you know, it’s interesting about the church as well, the Hopewell churches, it could be a clue as well.
Diana (30m 25s):
Right. I could explore church records and see if there’s anything surviving from that time. There are a lot of little clues for, for the research here.
Nicole (30m 35s):
Absolutely. So that was your documentary research. You did that part of your plan first, then the next part of your plan focused on DNA research. So what did you find as you worked with your research plan to look at DNA?
Diana (30m 49s):
Well, I had been entering some things in my research log and what I did was instead of like a person to enter the name of the person for a record, I would just put in DNA. And so that all as I was using the various tools, I could group by DNA and I could see all the things I had done. And so I had already entered some information on working with that DNA GEDCom G works and the, myheritage auto cluster and the genetic affairs hybrid auto segment cluster, the network graph and DNA match tree. So I already had some information in my research log. As I had been working through the DNA work that we do at the beginning of the study group for my research plan, I wanted to work more with just that Dillard -Peach cluster.
Diana (31m 37s):
I had several matches who had no trees at all. And I wanted to see if I could use G works to look at some of the trees that were kind of small. I had just what everybody has. They have trees that are really large with thousands of people. It matches with no trees. And then you have matches with small trees, like maybe a hundred people in them. So I thought, okay, I’m going to use G works, which searches for surnames in the trees. And I wanted to use the descendancy tree on FamilySearch for Elijah. People have been putting records for Elijah and building his tree. And he had a pretty good descendancy tree on FamilySearch .
Diana (32m 19s):
So I opened that up and I expanded it to get four generations out. And then I searched each of those possible surnames in G works, and I was able to find an additional match using that methodology. So it was really cool. So this person shared 17 centiMorgans and they were not included because we set the threshold for the network graph to be 20 centiMorgans. But when I looked at them on ancestry and looked at the DNA matches, they sure enough shared DNA with all those other people in that cluster that I’m working with. So it was really fun to find an additional match using the descendancy tree and G works.
Diana (32m 60s):
What a good idea. So as I worked with each matches’ tree, I would add my notes to the match details table of the air table log. And there were some that were mysteries and remain mysteries. There was this Thomas Dillard with a different surname. I can’t think what it is that shows up in some of these trees. And I have not figured out who he is or how he connects. And these people are up in Illinois and Iowa and Ohio. So I have no idea where the connection is with this small group of people. You know, I don’t know if it’s somebody that took off and went and settled at there and use different surname.
Diana (33m 43s):
I don’t know, but I put notes in my research log that, you know, this is something to be explored in the future. So it’s so nice to have a place to record all of your thoughts and your next steps as you’re working through those DNA matches because otherwise, where are you going to put all of that information?
Nicole (34m 1s):
I see you have a, a group of matches from your Peach cluster of the Dillard’s that went up to
Diana (34m 8s):
Illinois. Well, it looks like it that’s funny.
Nicole (34m 11s):
You know, when you, it was one of the daughters from your sister to Cynthia who, you know, she got married has a different surname, but she maybe had a son who had the Dillard middle name.
Diana (34m 21s):
That’s a good idea. Or I don’t have all of Elijah’s children figured out, had quite a few, and there are several that nobody has anything for them. That could be something too that one of his daughters took off or married someone. And then they moved up there and that’s very possible. So that’s next steps to continue working on his descendancy. Sometimes those women are tricky, you know, if they get married, not in the county of interest and it’s a common name, it can be hard to pinpoint them. So work to be done there.
Nicole (34m 54s):
Yeah. You know, if somebody who was a sibling to Elijah and Cynthia did go up to Illinois or Ohio, you might have better success looking in their death registers for the parent.
Diana (35m 6s):
Yeah, it’s true. It would be nice if they did have some better records, that point.
Nicole (35m 11s):
Well, that was really fun hearing about your research and what you had done with it in your log and how you kept it organized. I’m excited to talk again next week about your report. Yup.
Diana (35m 21s):
As I’ve been writing the report, I’ve made some interesting connections that will be fun to talk about.
Nicole (35m 30s):
Well, fantastic. We will talk to you guys all again next week. I hope you have a great
Diana (35m 34s):
Week. All right. Bye bye everyone. Bye.
Nicole (35m 37s):
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