CCGS
March General Meeting

March 17, 2010,  2:00 p.m.

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
2565 Tamiami Trail - Port Charlotte

Program

"In Law and in Genealogy,
Some Evidence Is Better Than Others" 

Presenter: The Honorable Susan Snow  

The Honorable Susan Snow retired in 2000 after serving for nearly nineteen years as an Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.

As a judge, Susan continually evaluated evidence presented to the court to make decisions.  Genealogists also must evaluate evidence to caredfully arrive at sound conclusions.  Susan will explain why the leegal model of evaluating evidence offers good comparisons for family history research.

Judge Snow is a past president of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and chaired the Education Committee of the Domestic Relations Division.  She initiated FOCUS on children, the parent education program for the Curcuit Court of Cook County and the Unified Family Court Model in which she served.
 
 
Upcoming Events
03/12/2010 - 10:00 AM
Intermediate Genealogy Class (#3)
Mid County Regional Library - Room C
03/16/2010 - 08:30 AM
Irish Research Workshop
Ave Maria University in Naples
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Tips & Tricks
A census is an official county of the population living in the United States on a designated day set at intervals. The census places an ancestor is a specific place at a specific time. (Census)

Prepare a census timeline before you begin. Review what you will find in the census you are searching. Work backwards from the most recent census. Expect spelling and age variations. (Census)

Soundex is a system of coding names for the census based on sound rather than alphabetical spelling. A variation called American Soundex was used in the 1930s for a retrospective analysis of the US censuses from 1890 through 1920. To save time, a free Soundex converter is available at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com. (Census)

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