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What’s the Evidence? How to Probe Documents Beyond the Obvious — replay of today’s webinar by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL now available for webinar members

What’s the Evidence? How to Probe Documents Beyond the Obvious — replay of today’s webinar by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL now available for webinar members

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The recording of today's webinar by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, "What’s the Evidence? How to Probe Documents Beyond the Obvious” is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/ESM with a webinar membership.

Webinar Description

Whatever our research dilemma, a correct solution depends upon a reliable evaluation of the evidence we are using. Evidence is not concrete. It is not definitive. It is not a source. It is not a fact. It is not “proof.” It is, instead, our interpretation of what a piece of information means. Evidence is both singular and collective. We analyze it piece by piece. We correlate each piece with everything else discoverable, and then we analyze the whole to reach conclusions that are reliable. This session walks us through the three levels at which each piece of information should be evaluated, in order to draw a reliable conclusion from it. The principles are then illustrated with a common but thorny problem: a Revolutionary War–era case study that might be called: How to Identify Someone Who’s Been Mangled by ‘Facts.’

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 17 minute recording of "What’s the Evidence? How to Probe Documents Beyond the Obvious" is now available to view in our webinar library (webinar membership required).

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