by Susan | Sep 8, 2015 | Brick Wall Research, Challenge, Uncategorized
Now that you’ve spent some time analyzing your research findings, it’s time to correlate your evidence. This is the most fun part! You’ve probably been correlating your evidence all along without realizing it. Genealogy Standards #47 gives this description of...
by Susan | Sep 1, 2015 | Brick Wall Research, Challenge, Evidence
You’ve gathered all kinds of information in searching for an answer to your research question. Do you know what you have? How credible is the information? To get these answers, you need to identify the types of evidence you have and the quality of that...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2015 | Best Posts, Brick Wall Research, Challenge
This next elements of your research challenge, analysis and correlation, are the ones that get overlooked the most often, yet professionals recognize they are the keys that will often reveal the answers to their research questions. For this challenge, critically...
by Susan | Aug 11, 2015 | Brick Wall Research, Challenge
Hopefully you spent the last several weeks working your research plan! I hope it went well for you. Now, it’s time for some self-assessment: Did you start with a research question? Did you target your subject’s time and place? Did you search in a variety...
by Susan | Aug 11, 2015 | Brick Wall Research, Challenge
Some of you have noticed that I haven’t published a post since July 11, 2015. Thank you for noticing! You are among my loyal readers and I appreciate you and thank you. Life has a way of throwing in a few bumps in the road and I’ve hit a few, so my blog had to take a...
by Susan | Jul 11, 2015 | Brick Wall Research, Challenge
People who know my dad say I look like my dad. People who know my mom say I look like my mom. How can that be? It’s because they are looking at me from the reference point of what they know. They either know my dad or my mom and see those features in me. What...
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