| When: | Saturday, December 2, 2017, 10 am to 12 noon |
| Where: | David Library of the American Revolution |
| Subject: |
Cattle, Court & Cafe: Correcting Family Lore with Social History Click link for printable flyer |
| This case study demonstrates how the use of newspaper records can augment genealogical research and uncover errors in family lore. | |
| Speaker: |
Gideon Hill |
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Gideon Hill has been researching his family for over 45 years. His research interests are pre-1750 Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. He has completed the Genealogical Research Certificate of Boston University and is especially interested in how the academic field of Social History can inform genealogical research and the compiling of a family history. His professional background is in the field of Family Medicine. He attended the University of Delaware and Jefferson Medical College. He had the honor of serving in the United States Air Force Medical Corps—and was delighted to have been stationed in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany, one of his ancestral homelands. |
