Making the right connections One of my favourite genealogy "teachers" is Connie Knox, who shares her vast knowledge and love of building family trees on the Genealogy TV channel at YouTube. Last week she released one of her most helpful videos yet: Genealogical Research Process Simplified. In it she walks us through the steps she takes each time she begins (or returns to) a relative on her tree.

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Decisions, decisions… While writing my final post in the story of the three cousins named Elizabeth Beake who lived in East Kent during the 18th century, I realized I had been working on this family since last April, beginning with the post, Building out my Beake Family. Over the last 8½ months, I've moved back several more generations with a fair degree of confidence, thanks to parish register entries, monumental inscriptions, and a series of wills.

Whether to continue with this line, or move along...that is the question #genealogyresearch
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Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 6 – a challenging case…. At long last, the final chapter in my three Elizabeth Beakes project. Since early July last year, the main focus of my research has been solving the puzzle of the three cousins named Elizabeth Beake who lived in East Kent during the 18th century. The discovery of several wills, administration documents, and even some newspaper mentions helped me positively identify two of the cousins and their husbands: …

Which Elizabeth Beake...Part 6 - a challenging case.... #BeakeFamilyHistory #KentEnglandGenealogy #genealogymethodology #familyhistorywriting

Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 5 – the final piece of the Beake and Tickner “puzzle”… Over the past few weeks, I've built out a family for Elizabeth Beake, daughter of William Beake and Mary Gibbs, and connected her to Thomas Tickner (?-1779), and illustrated much of my process in a succession of blog posts. The final pieces of evidence I've left til last, although I did allude to them in my October 27 post, Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 4…

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Mapping Robert Beake… I've been fighting a summer cold, which has interrupted my blogging routine, but I think I'm back on track now. As I finished working through Robert Beake's will, it occurred to me I needed to add the location of his properties to a map, alongside those which marked his life events: Personal locations Ickham (baptism) Canterbury (marriage to Mary Mount)

Mapping Robert Beake... #mappingmyancestors #historicalmaps #ancestrallocations #genealogy #Beakefamilyhistory

Building a FAN club from a will… My progress with abstratacting Robert Beake's will1 is slow. Early on I decided to change my earlier approach and break down the information into manageable blocks dictated by the type of details: People, Bequest, Properties etc..  Having read the will at least twice in its entirety, I realized Robert had provided me with a very full cast of characters, including his immediate and extended family, former in-laws, as well as his tenants (current and previous).

Building a FAN club from a will... #familyhistory #genealogymethodology #BeakeFamilyHistory