Category: Biography

PODCAST Ep 601: Confirmation Bias, Ethel McKinney, Harley Bowers, and Solon Selleck

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Ep 601: Confirmation Bias, Ethel McKinney, Harley Bowers, and Solon Selleck
#BioADay2022, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Biography, Death Records, Documents, FamilySearch, Google Maps, How To, How to Think, Names, Newspapers.com, Podcast, Podcast episode, Public Records, Research

First off, welcome back – to us all! Glad to be recording again. This season will be all about confirmation bias and the many ways it can get in the way of writing accurate life stories. My focus has been on FamilySearch in the past few years, so we’ll be talking about writing those Brief … Read More “PODCAST Ep 601: Confirmation Bias, Ethel McKinney, Harley Bowers, and Solon Selleck” »

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PODCAST Ep 504: BioADay2022 – Wiley Franklin Odom

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Ep 504: BioADay2022 – Wiley Franklin Odom
#BioADay2022, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Biography, Birth Records, Census, Death Records, DNA, Family Lore, Folklore, Marriage Records, My Discoveries, Names, Podcast episode, Research, YouTube

Here’s another biography I developed on my quest to achieve one biography per day on my platform of choice, FamilySearch. With each ancestor, I always start with the auto-generated Life Story on Ancestry, copy it and paste it in the LifeStory field on FamilySearch. Then, I augment it with facts from census, vital, and other … Read More “PODCAST Ep 504: BioADay2022 – Wiley Franklin Odom” »

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PODCAST Ep 410: Get Lost, 2021 – Hello, #BioADay2022!

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Ep 410: Get Lost, 2021 – Hello, #BioADay2022!
#BioADay2022, Ancestry, Biography, Clubhouse, Facebook group, Family Cookbook, FamilySearch, History, How To, Podcast, Podcast episode, Recipe, Research, Social Justice Saturdays, Teaching, Twitter, Zoom

2021 is definitely in the running for my least favorite year EVER! It has given me reason to reexamine what I’m doing, however, both with the podcast and with my own work. Join me for a list of thank-you’s, and for an introduction of the quickest, easiest solution I’ve found so far to distractions, brick … Read More “PODCAST Ep 410: Get Lost, 2021 – Hello, #BioADay2022!” »

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PODCAST Episode 307: The Conversation in Specifics – Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, Too (with transcript)

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 307: The Conversation in Specifics – Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, Too (with transcript)
Accessible, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Biography, Blogging, DAR, Enslaving Ancestors, Facebook group, History, How To, Join the Conversation, Learning, My Discoveries, Names, Patreon, Podcast, Podcast episode, Reparational Genealogy, Research, Show Notes, YouTube

This is the soundtrack of the YouTube video I released on June 10th, combined with some further explanations and discourse in reference to Reparational Genealogy. It contains challenges to White American genealogists to use social media platforms to start to publicize the facts about their slaveholding ancestors. For those White American genealogists whose ancestors didn’t … Read More “PODCAST Episode 307: The Conversation in Specifics – Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, Too (with transcript)” »

PODCAST Episode 26: The Family Cookbook – Emily’s Casserole

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 26: The Family Cookbook – Emily’s Casserole
Biography, Documents, Family Cookbook, Family Lore, Folklore, Interview, Podcast, Podcast episode, Recipe

Family ties, a slight genealogical mystery, a discussion of privilege, 19th and 20th-century classism in Midwestern America, and the value of comfort food all converge in this week’s episode of The Family Cookbook. And, we welcome our new Food Correspondent, Rick Leonard of An American Genealogy! Rick shares with us the backstory of a family … Read More “PODCAST Episode 26: The Family Cookbook – Emily’s Casserole” »

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PODCAST Episode 22: How To Build a Life – John Joseph Dalain (with transcript)

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 22: How To Build a Life – John Joseph Dalain (with transcript)
Accessible, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Best Practices, Biography, Birth Records, Census, Death Records, Documents, Family Lore, FamilySearch, Federal Census, Find-a-Grave, Folklore, History, How To, Marriage Records, My Discoveries, Podcast, Podcast episode, Research, Show Notes

I talk a lot about component parts, or the basic how-to’s of handling records, but what about the how-to’s of building one person’s life in your family tree? Genealogy has become an immediate-gratification online phenomenon, but it’s not always that at all. How long should a 21st-century online researcher be expected to wait before work … Read More “PODCAST Episode 22: How To Build a Life – John Joseph Dalain (with transcript)” »

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PODCAST Episode 8: Tell Me the Truth – Genealogy for Biographers

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Episode 8: Tell Me the Truth – Genealogy for Biographers
Ancestry, Best Practices, Biography, Family Lore, FamilySearch, Folklore, How To, Patreon, Podcast, Podcast episode, Research, Tips and Tricks

Biography can be really dry and boring stuff, a string of facts without seasoning or flavor. In this episode, I’ll teach you how to use genealogical research of your subject to add spice and life to a biographical book or project. I’ll tell you how I’m using it to write a book of my own, … Read More “PODCAST Episode 8: Tell Me the Truth – Genealogy for Biographers” »

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