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Five Wives & A Feather Bed: Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Resolve Conflicting Claims – free webinar by BCG and Mark A. Wentling, MLS, CG now online for limited time

Five Wives & A Feather Bed: Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Resolve Conflicting Claims – free webinar by BCG and Mark A. Wentling, MLS, CG now online for limited time

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The recording of tonight's webinar by the Board for Certification of Genealogists and Mark A. Wnetling, MLS, CG, "Five Wives & A Feather Bed: Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Resolve Conflicting Claims" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/BCG for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

Genealogical scholars make conflicting claims about the number of wives, and the number and mothers of the children, of Joseph Brownell, a Mayflower descendant of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, born at Little Compton, Rhode Island, 16 February 1699, to Thomas Brownell and Esther Taber. These conflicting claims raise significant questions about the makeup of Joseph Brownell’s family. Did he have one, two or five wives? Did he have one, three or eight children? To which wife, or wives, were they born? The presenter will lead participants through reasonably exhaustive research and standards-based evaluation of indirect and negative evidence found in Quaker meeting records, and vital, land and probate records to demonstrate how proof can be constructed to answer these questions. Correlation of this evidence with the timespan of each marriage will then enable his children to be assigned to their correct mothers.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 21 minute recording of "Five Wives & A Feather Bed: Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Resolve Conflicting Claims" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time.

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