genealogy

What an 87-Year-Old Genealogy Mystery Taught Me About Research, Data, and Putting Your Work Into the World

Solving an 87-year-old genealogy mystery became an unexpected lesson in research, data literacy, AI-assisted analysis, collaboration, and the value of publishing imperfect work. The breakthrough did not come from one perfect source, but from generations of people preser...

Genealogy as Data Analysis: What Family History Research Has Taught Me About Bad Data, AI, and Finding the Truth

Genealogy is more than old records and family trees. It is data analysis, source evaluation, AI-assisted consistency checking, historical research, and the careful work of separating truth from bad data.

Roots in the Pause: Union Loyalists, Privilege, and the Records We Leave

I fell back into my family archives during a rare pause in St. Louis and found the man my grandmother meant: Joseph J. Johnson, killed by Confederate soldiers after voting for Lincoln. It’s a story about privilege as visibility, the courage of ordinary choices, and wh...

genealogy

What an 87-Year-Old Genealogy Mystery Taught Me About Research, Data, and Putting Your Work Into the World

Genealogy as Data Analysis: What Family History Research Has Taught Me About Bad Data, AI, and Finding the Truth

Roots in the Pause: Union Loyalists, Privilege, and the Records We Leave

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