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Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 34 (Aug
23-29)
Prompt:
Timeline
#52ancestors
Concept maps can be a visual representation of your goals or research. Years ago I was introduced to mind mapping in a history class. Now it is often called concept mapping. A few years ago, I started doing a workshop for college students showing them how to do research planning with concept maps. Then it morphed into genealogy research planning.
Concept maps have several benefits. Mostly I use them for planning my
research and analyzing data, but when I started doing genealogy presentations
on concept maps, timelines seemed to work well.
I prefer creating them with paper
and map pencils or markers. Somehow the act of using pencils or markers helps
me escape from the box and frees my creativity. I often think of new ways to
solve genealogy brick walls when I create research plans with concept maps. I
have a spiral sketch pad where I draw my concept maps. You don't have to be a good artist as some of
my drawings are very crude. Doing it on
the computer makes it neater, but doesn't have the same freeing affect for me.
Below is a timeline concept map created in PowerPoint about my 2nd Great
Grandmother, Edith Ethelda Neese. She outlived three husbands and had eight
children, all with her first husband, William Britton Sample.
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