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RLP 247: RLP with DNA 9- Research Planning

The Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast

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How to Start a Research Plan

When we choose a research question and we're planning on applying genetic evidence, it's important to start with a person you've already thoroughly researched in the documents. So that's kind of how it was with Cynthia Dillard. I'd already done so much research on her life with Thomas Beverly Royston and as a mother and as a wife and really had gathered every single clue that I could possibly find from the records. But that's absolutely right that we have to do the documentary and DNA together. And it kind of highlights how we have to use documentary and DNA sources together because you find a hypothesis like Elijah Dillard and then you have to work with documentary sources to figure out who he was

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