Blog 23: Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

• My essential question is "how can family history be ascertained when written records are hard to find?"
• My first answer is to look beyond the "obvious" sources and look at the smaller ones.
• My second answer is to understand what is happening in history at the time period of the research being conducted.
• My third answer is to understand someones genetic history with medical and ethnicity.
• My best answer is my second answer.
• This is my best answer because history is what makes family history make sense and answers questions that cannot always be answered by documents and pictures.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

• When prepping for my third interview, I was trying to think of a question that has the potential of achieving substance for a second answer.
• I then asked Lisa Feranttee (the person I interviewed) and told me history was incredibly important and to consider the fact that if some events had not happened, the American culture would be different.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

• Problems I would face was the issue that I was not entirely sure what to do about research because it seemed to be repetitive and not as helpful as I would hope so.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

• My third interview for answer two.
• Because it provided me with the building blocks of my second answer which grew to be my best answer.
• The video from Ancestry called, "How to get Around the 1890 Census."
• This is major for me because this is exactly what my first answer is about.