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Is Joanna Elliot the Mother of Dorah Darragh? Completing the 14-Day RLP Challenge

It's been a busy second week of the Challenge! I followed the Research Like a Pro process, step by step. I reached the finish line and have a report written up. Here's what I did Day 8-14.  Day 8 - Research Planning -  "Today, you will review your hypothesis and your list of identified sources. Which sources in your list to you think will help you prove or disprove your hypothesis?" As mentioned earlier, my best chance of finding either Joanna and Dorah's burial records, or Dorah's marriage record, would be in the Catholic church records, but my requests have thus far not been filled. However, there are still sources I can check, including a couple of Ontario Catholic church collections online: Ontario, Canada, Roman Catholic Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1760-1923 Ontario, Canada, Roman Catholic Marriages, 1827-1870 Some other collections on Ancestry and FamilySearch might reveal a civil marriage record naming Dorah's mother. These record sets are ava...
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Behind the Stories: A Peek Behind the Research Curtain

Do you want to peek behind the genealogical curtain? 1

Have you ever wondered how I come up with information for my blog posts? It should come as no surprise that the stories all flow from research discoveries.

Genealogical research can be as simple as ordering a vital record, like a birth or death record. Or, it can be as complicated as researching multiple generations of a family line for a lineage society, or looking deeply at a person or event—and take several months to complete.

The constant in all my research? I invariably find many interesting stories along the way to answering a specific research question, and these stories beg to be told.

I recently focused on my Croatian great grandmother for a two-part blog series. The information I uncovered was the product of the "Research Like a Pro," research process I use, created by genealogists/podcasters Diana Shults Elder and Nicole Dyer. They kindly asked me to write about my project for their FamilyLocket blog.

So, if you'd like to peek behind my "genealogical curtain," dive into the blog post, "Identifying Reasons for Emigration Using the Research Like a Pro Process."2

Until next time...

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NOTES

1 Sir John Tenniel, Alice in Wonderland illustration, Project Gutenberg (https://bit.ly/2JNrG8s: accessed 6 April 2020). This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net.

2 Diana Elder and Nancy Gilbride Casey, "Identifying Reasons for Emigration Using the Research Like a Pro Process." FamilyLocket, 11 March 2020 (https://bit.ly/2JIvbx7 : accessed 6 April 2020).









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