Articles for Study
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The NGSQ Study Groups meet once a month to discuss an article from the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Groups meet online for 60 to 90 minutes to discuss the methodology used in the article and take turns moderating the discussions.
This study is based on the model set forth by Dr. William M. Litchman, where each participant reads the selected article from the NGSQ several times making notes about the research techniques, evidence, and logic used in solving the genealogy problem.
jOIN A gROUP
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sTUDY THE aRTICLE
Read the article for the month. You may need to take notes and/or create charts to help you better follow the evidence.
mEET AND dISCUSS
Attend your group’s monthly meeting to discuss the article.
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2024 Articles for Study
January
Karen Stanbary, CG, “A Charming Scoundrel and a Tragic Victim—Charles Mapes and Maggie McBurney of Rock Island County, Illinois: Biological Parents of Myrtle Eva (Porter) Dewein,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (June 2023): 85–110.
February
Catherine Becker Wiest Desmarais, CG, “Was Nancy a Northamer? DNA Helps Identify a Revolutionary War Militiaman’s Daughter,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (June 2023): 129–146.
March
Nancy A. Peters, CG, CGL, “A Birth Family for Sophia Corine (Dyches) Rowell of Barnwell County, South Carolina: A Case of Forgotten Identity,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (March 2023): 35–57.
April
Darcie Hind Posz, CG, “Lost Sons: DNA Confirms the Parents of Robert Bradford Murray of Andrew and Worth Counties, Missouri,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 110 (December 2022): 245–263.
May
Jill Morelli, CG, CGL, “Kirstin Pehrsdotter: Indirect Evidence Helps Build a Seventeenth-Century Swedish Family,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (March 2023): 59–74.
June
Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, FASG, “The Recordless Marriage of Virginia Jones from Caroline County, Virginia, and Henry Brooks of Covington County, Alabama,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (September 2023): 165–183.
July
Worth Shipley Anderson, JD, “Recovering the Identity of Barsheba (Morris) Johnson of North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 107 (March 2019): 43–54.
August
Ricki King, “Separating Identities of Two Hattie Campbells of Marion and Ralls Counties, Missouri, Reveals Hattie King’s Mother,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 110 (December 2022): 265–273.
September
Eva Holmes, CG, AG, “Stanislao Cesta and Fortunato Cesta: Merging Identities,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (September 2023): 185–198.
October
Susan Michael, CG, “Willis Gay: The Testator, The Groom, and Their Wives,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (September 2023): 221–234.
November
Rachal Mills Lennon, CG, FASG, “Southern Strategies Revisited: Expanding ‘Reasonably Exhaustive Research’ to Find Solomon Harper’s Roots in the Carolina Backcountry,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (March 2023): 5–23.
December
No article for December.