Lecture 1: Following an Evidence Trail Through Five Countries to Find Irish Ancestors: A Case Study
A cryptic note in Missouri and unexpected shared DNA trigger a path through records in the United States, Northern Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and Ireland to identify Irish Ancestors.

Lecture 2: Overcoming record destruction with Indirect Evidence, Including atDNA: A case Study This lecture explains and demonstrates, via a specific case study, how to use atDNA to strengthen weak conclusions from documentary evidence in contexts of record scarcity.

Tom has been pursuing his ancestry since 1963. For the first twenty years he was clueless about what he was trying to accomplish and how to do it. When he started climbing the genealogy learning curve he repeatedly experienced the challenges, joys, and rewards of tracing his ancestors reliably and understanding their lives. Tom eventually became an award-winning writer, board-certified genealogist, editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, recipient of honors from genealogical organizations, and author of the textbooks Mastering Genealogical Proof and Mastering Genealogical Documentation. Using his nearly lifelong career in education as a springboard, including classes since 1999 online, he enjoys teaching at weeklong genealogy institutes, weekend seminars, and local, national, and international genealogy conferences, either “virtually” or in person.