Separating Same Name Individuals

RLP 286: Researching your Scandinavian Ancestors with Torhild Shirley Part 2

Jan 1, 2024

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is an interview with Torhild Shirley about Scandinavian research. She continues the case study of Gudmund Rasmussen and discusses research planning, carrying out the research, and the conclusion. The central question addressed in this episode revolves around whether Gudmund Rasmusson, presumed to be...

RLP 285: Scandinavian Research with Torhild Shirley Part 1

Dec 25, 2023

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is an interview with Scandinavian research expert, Torhild Shirley, AG. Torhild is a native of Norway. We discuss the challenges of genealogical research in Scandinavia, focusing on a case study from Sweden. In the case, Torhild aims to uniquely identify a person named...

RLP 279: Unmerging on FamilySearch Family Tree

Nov 13, 2023

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is about how to unmerge profiles on the FamilySearch Family Tree. When there are many people of the same name who lived in an area, it’s common for the profiles to get accidentally merged. When you notice an issue where multiple people have...

How to Unmerge People of the Same Name on the FamilySearch Family Tree

Jun 24, 2023

As I mentioned in my last post about the “Other Relationships” feature at FamilySearch, I’ve been updating the FamilySearch Family Tree with my conclusions about my husband’s 3rd-great-grandmother, Barsheba (Tharp) Dyer (1813-1899), and her ancestral line. I had written a proof argument and a couple research reports that I wanted...

Identifying John Wilson’s Irish Origins, Part 1: Y-DNA Analysis

Jan 8, 2022

I’m delighted to introduce a new guest blogger to Family Locket – Rick T. Wilson. Rick joined us in our Research Like a Pro Study Group #7 and is a skilled researcher and writer. He is sharing a three-part series about his research to identify John Wilson’s origins using...

Revisiting a Research Project – Men of the Same Name

Mar 25, 2020

When researching complicated families with many men of the same name, how do you track them? Can you really sort out individuals and come up with a possible father for your difficult ancestor? You may think it impossible, but with good research practices and a way to visualize the information...

RLP 62: Separating Men of the Same Name

Sep 16, 2019

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is about determining which of the many people of the same name and same place is your subject. How do you make sense of a complicated situation such as two individuals with very similar identities? It takes thorough research of all family members,...

RLP 60 – Who Was Anne Carter? Interview with Kimball Carter CG

Sep 2, 2019

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is an interview with Certified Genealogist® Kimball Carter. We discuss Kimballs’ fourth great grandmother, Anne Carter, and the challenging research he undertook to determine her identity and relationships. Anne died in 1789 in Westmoreland County, Virginia and appears in numerous family trees and...

RLP 58: Track Your Family with a Timeline – A Tale of Two Swedes

Aug 19, 2019

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is about how to use timelines to help you get started with your research project. As you gather all the sources about your objective that you already have and put them in a timeline, you’ll notice holes, make connections, have ideas for your...

Examining City Directories to Discover New Avenues of Research

Aug 13, 2019

Censuses and vital records are the backbones of genealogical research. Finding ancestors on every census and discovering their vital records can help a researcher begin to identify an ancestor and the familial relationships for that ancestor. Land and probate records are also valuable sources. But what happens when a search...