Vital records do not survive for all time periods, or they may never have existed. Many regions in the United States, for example, didn’t start recording vital records until the late nineteenth century. In this online lecture, Chief Genealogist David Allen Lambert will discuss how to ensure you are doing an exhaustive search, provide information on alternate sources, and how to draw conclusions from multiple sources when a “smoking gun” record doesn’t exist. We will also discuss how to narrow a timeframe when even less information can be found.

This 60-minute lecture will include three, 10-minute intervals for audience Q&A for a total of 90 minutes.

Registration includes access to:

• Live lecture presented on Zoom
• Lecture recording, available to review for the foreseeable future
• 9-page syllabus with resource guide
• PDF handouts of the lecture slides