Emily Croom's Lecture Topics

Enliven your group’s programs with presentations from the list below. These topics are available for genealogical, historical, and lineage societies as well as church, community, retirement home, and other groups. All the topics pertain to United States genealogy and/or research. Many of them use research examples or case studies to illustrate the sources or techniques discussed.

Click on a topic title to learn more about the presentation. You may contact me regarding fees and available dates. If you are interested in a topic not listed here, contact me to ask about it.

1. To a Stake in the Prairie: Using Land Records in Genealogy
2. For the Settling of My Temporal Estate: Using Probate Records in Genealogy
3. Finding Their Names in Print: Using Newspapers in Genealogy
4. Tools and Tips for the 1930 Census
5. The Census: Is What You See Always What You Get?
   (Revised in 2007)
6. Old Dominion Research: Our Virginia Ancestors
7. The Territorial Papers of the United States
8. Proof and the Paper Trail: Documenting Your Research
9. You're Known by the Company You Keep: Cluster Genealogy, an Essential Tool for Research
10. Their Place in Time: Broadening the Perspective Beyond Dates and Places
11. Beyond The Begats: Writing Biographical Sketches of Ancestors
12. Show and Tell: Sharing Your Results
13. An Entertaining Look at Genealogy
14. FAQs and Answers
15. Genealogy 101: Getting Started (Revised in 2007)
16. The "R" Word Need Not Be Scary
17. Timely Tools for Genealogists
    (NEW topic in 2004)
18. Location, Location, Location: Using Maps in Genealogy
    (NEW topic in 2004)
19. Likely, Logical, and Convincing: Resolving Conflicting Evidence
    (NEW topic in 2004)
20. Genealogy in the Urban South
    (NEW topic in 2005)
21. Sifting Through the Ashes: Research in "Burned Counties"
    (NEW topic in 2005)
22. Lost in 1890? What To Do When the Census is Missing
    (NEW topic in 2006)
23. Not a Brick Wall Until...
    (NEW topic in 2006)
24. Gooly Girl and Fryed Ham: Building Your Case, A Genealogist's Tool Kit
    (NEW in 2006)
25. Detour! Bridge Out Ahead: Alternate Approaches to Genealogical Problems. (NEW topic in 2007)
26. If at First You Don't Succeed, What Do You Try, Try Again ... To Find That Unknown Generation? (NEW topic in 2007)
27. Hidden in Plain Sight: Details We Sometimes Miss
    (NEW topic in 2008)
28. Seeing is Not Always Believing: Avoiding False Assumptions
    (NEW topic in 2008)
29. Roadblocks to My Research
    (NEW topic in 2008)
30. Beyond Census and Courthouse: City Directories and Obituaries
    (NEW topic in 2008)
31. The Other Half of the Story: Researching Female Ancestors (Revised in 2007)