SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
September 16, 2023
“Indexing Errors: How to Find Records When You Can’t Find Records”
Presented by: Mark Cross
We all depend on indexing in our genealogy research, whether it’s the indexing done that provides search results on Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org, or the printed indexes at the end of a book. Indexers do a wonderful job, allowing documents to be searched for name, date or other pertinent information. But indexing is not perfect. Names can be mis-indexed and nearly impossible to find. How do you find a record when it is not indexed properly? How can you be sure you’re not missing a valuable nugget of information about your ancestor? Examples and methodology will be covered in this presentation.
About the speaker: Mark Cross became interested in genealogy at the age of twelve. That’s when he read an unpublished and unsourced family tree by a distant relative, that included a transcribed letter written by an ancestor about his adventures fighting for the Union in the Civil War. After college, he started doing his own research and became hooked. He has attended the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) in Georgia and is a graduate of ProGen 37. Mark has also published articles in the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (APGQ). Mark is a voice actor and an OSHA Safety Trainer and CPR instructor. When he’s not researching dead people, he’s training on how to keep people alive.
This month we will be offering our speaker’s presentation In-Person AND Online!
Meeting Place:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
27976 Marguerite Pkwy, Mission Viejo, CA 92692
and
Online
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
