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16 December 2025
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Eastern)
Incorporating social context in a Kinship Determination Project isn’t just about weaving historical events and descriptions of daily life into a family narrative. Community and culture shape behavior and relationships. To understand and document our ancestors, we need to understand the society in which they lived. When we estimate a marriage date based the birth of a couple’s first child (or that the birth of a child implies a marriage), we base those assumptions on context. This lecture will explore social context and illustrate how to research and write about it within a Kinship Determination Project.
Read about presenter Eva Holmes, CG
Eva Holmes, CG®, AG®, lives in Portland, Maine. She has been published in several periodicals, including the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Crossroads, and the Minnesota Genealogist. Eva is also the author of the Research in the States Guide to Maine published by the National Genealogical Society in 2024. She is the editor of the Utah Genealogical Association’s quarterly, Crossroads.
Eva supports genealogical education as a volunteer mentor for programs such as ProGen and as a trustee of the BCG Education Fund. Her research interests include New England, Atlantic Canadian, and Italian American families.