Presenter: Tammy Hepps
Format: Download MP4 video file of Slides with synchronized audio

Genealogists use the records of defunct communities to trace individuals, but unexplored power lies in looking at multiple, overlapping record sets in their entirety. This talk will present techniques for to digitally recreating a community and its collective history by identifying relevant collections; using technology to digitize, index, tag, and map those records; and incorporating the contributions of descendants. The talk will incorporate a robust case study of how these techniques were applied to a small community in the U.S., but the same techniques can be applied to any community with surviving records.