Presenter: Jennifer Mendelsohn
Format: Download MP4 video file of Slides with synchronized audio

This talk will lay out how 25 years? worth of journalism experience has helped to guide me as a genealogist and taught me to conduct fruitful searches. We?ll talk about using the ?Law and Order? method (follow the ?dun duns!?) to track down information and how relying on simple principles like Occam?s Razor ? that the most likely scenario is the least complicated ? can help you get further. Using the framework of a logic puzzle, we?ll go over pitfalls like not blindly using Ancestry hints, assessing the credibility of sources, not being wedded to spelling, and why genealogy is like playing Concentration: you always have to remember the cards you?ve seen and turned over.