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'''''Use logic, deduction, inference, and inspiration.'''''<br>1. Correlate records of neighbors to infer relationships.<br>2. Study migration patterns to infer where the family’s place of origin.<br>3. Try to disprove uncertain connections. | '''''Use logic, deduction, inference, and inspiration.'''''<br>1. Correlate records of neighbors to infer relationships.<br>2. Study migration patterns to infer where the family’s place of origin.<br>3. Try to disprove uncertain connections. | ||
= | = '''Get an Education to Learn to Think in New Ways''' = | ||
* | * '''Read''' about the area your ancestors settled. Study its history and local genealogical periodicals. | ||
'''Read''' about the area your ancestors settled. Study its history and local genealogical periodicals. | * Take '''classes''', conferences, and institutes. | ||
* Go on a '''research trip''' to visit their communities to learn about the local way of life and repositories<span id="1198977441098E" style="display: none;"> </span>. | |||
<br> Burned counties do not have to be end of the line research situations if you prepare well, look for substitute records, search a variety of jurisdictions and repositories for the family, and approach such research problems in innovative ways. | |||
Burned counties do not have to be end of the line research situations if you prepare well, look for substitute records, search a variety of jurisdictions and repositories for the family, and approach such research problems in innovative ways. | |||
= '''Endnotes''' = | = '''Endnotes''' = | ||
1. An example of relatively early use of the phrase “burned counties” is found in a regularly featured periodical article which first appeared as “Records from Burned Counties,” ''Virginia Genealogical Society Bulletin'', 4, issue 3 (July 1966).<br> 2. Elizabeth Shown Mills, “Genealogical Mindset & Principles of Scholarship” (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology & Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 13 June 2005).<br> 3. G. David Dilts, "Research Logs: The Most Important Tool for Organizing Your Family History," ''Genealogical Journal'' 30 (2002): 10-11.<br> 4. Carol Harless, et. al., PAF Documentation Guidelines (N.p.: Silicon Valley PAF Users Group, 1993), 1.<br> 5. Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Dissecting the Research Problem” (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology & Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 17 June 2005).<br> 6. ''Ibid.'' <br> 7. Mills, “Genealogical Mindset & Principles of Scholarship.”<br> 8. Mills, “Dissecting the Research Problem.” | 1. An example of relatively early use of the phrase “burned counties” is found in a regularly featured periodical article which first appeared as “Records from Burned Counties,” ''Virginia Genealogical Society Bulletin'', 4, issue 3 (July 1966).<br> 2. Elizabeth Shown Mills, “Genealogical Mindset & Principles of Scholarship” (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology & Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 13 June 2005).<br> 3. G. David Dilts, "Research Logs: The Most Important Tool for Organizing Your Family History," ''Genealogical Journal'' 30 (2002): 10-11.<br> 4. Carol Harless, et. al., PAF Documentation Guidelines (N.p.: Silicon Valley PAF Users Group, 1993), 1.<br> 5. Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Dissecting the Research Problem” (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology & Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 17 June 2005).<br> 6. ''Ibid.'' <br> 7. Mills, “Genealogical Mindset & Principles of Scholarship.”<br> 8. Mills, “Dissecting the Research Problem.” | ||