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Using Kinship Networks to Solve Genealogical Problems
Using Kinship Networks to Solve Genealogical Problems
by Dr Bill Lindsey
Historians as diverse as Peter Laslett, Gary Mills, and Carolyn Earle Billingsley have proposed that historical researchers should breach the artificial barrier between genealogy and “real” history.
In her book Communities of Kinship, Billingsley demonstrates the significance of family history by showing how a Southern plantation family, the Keesees, and their kinship network extended the cotton frontier west, moving step by step in a planned process involving back-forth communication.
In their book Plain Folk, Planters and the Complexities of Southern Society, Ricky and Annette Pierce Sherrod confirm Billingsley’s thesis and apply it to the movement of a number of families to the Red River valley region of Louisiana in the 19th century and then into Texas.
In his talk, Dr Lindsey will show how the kinship network approach of Billingsley and the Sherrods can be used to solve genealogical problems in our ancestral research.
William D. (Bill) Lindsey is a Little Rock native who holds a B.A. in English from Loyola University, an M.A. in English from Tulane University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in theology from the University of St. Michael’s College of the Toronto School of Theology. Among other published works, he’s the author of Fiat Flux: The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, Nineteenth-Century Country Doctor and Philosopher, which won the Booker-Worthen prize in 2014; and (with William L. Russell and Mary Ryan) A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine, 1799-1989.
Bill maintains a genealogical blog in which his goal is to place online his research of nearly fifty years. The blog is called Begats and Bequeathals: A Southern U.S. Family Documented and is found here: https://begatsandbequeathalsasouthernusfamilydocumented.com
Zoom meeting video:
0:00:55 Meeting
0:01:25 Presentation
0:53:09 Questions and Answers
1:26:24 End
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