This blog post was written with the assistance of AI based on the Henderson Weatherford Research project uploaded to Claude 3.5 Sonnet. See the report link at the end of the article for all information fully cited.  In genealogy, what we don’t find can be just as important as what we do find. The case of Henderson Weatherford, born about 1815 in Tennessee, demonstrates how careful attention to negative evidence helped break down a long-standing...