Maternal Threads Unwoven: Identifying Margareta’s Mother in 18th Century Sweden
Jill Morelli, CG, CGL
Content
Welcome
1m 6s
About BCG
6m 15s
Speaker's Introduction
53s
Introduction
2m 47s
Methologoies
11m 26s
Problem - The Hishult Family
3m 9s
Strategies
8m 48s
Conflict
5m 3s
FAN Club
8m 51s
Can DNA Help?
8m 52s
Announcements
1m 30s
Questions / answers
13m 3s
About this webinar
In spite of birth entries for Margareta's five siblings in Hishult, there was no record of her birth in the parish. Tax records quickly identified the father, and revealed multiple moves within a narrow span of time; however, identification of the mother remained elusive. No witnesses to births of the children provided clues; no household examinations existed. Coupling the understanding of broad context (naming patterns, inheritance laws, the calendar shift, etc.) with mtDNA and documentary evidence, the mother was identified and the lack of a records was explained.
About the speaker
Jill Morelli, CG, CGL is a “Roots” genealogist, becoming interested in family history in the 1970’s with the Alex Haley show. At that time, she just collected “stuff.” After a hiatus during which she ...
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Comments (51)
Beautifully clear and well presented. Well worth watching even if you have no Swedish connections (I don't!) for methodology and general interest.
Excellent! Jill's webinars are always so informative and interesting. Thank you!
Jill always has an interesting case or story and presents it beautifully. Thanks, Jill, BCG and Legacy..
Very informative
Jill was fantastic! I'm totally ignorant of Swedish research so that was a lot to absorb.
I was especially impressed with Jill's ability to spell out various inferences that can and cannot be made based on any given piece of information. Yet, she was still able to weave a coherent narrative, too.
Excellent webinar. Very well planned and presented. Thank you.
Very interesting