Historic Pathways

Elizabeth Shown Mills

Community Studies

Colonial Gypsies (Romani)

Assimilation? Or Marginalization and Discrimination? Romani Settlers of the Colonial Gulf ViewCite

Natchitoches, Louisiana

Demythicizing History: Marie Thérèse Coincoin, Tourism, and the National Historic Landmarks Program (Louisiana History) ViewCite

Family and Social Patterns of the Colonial Louisiana Frontier: A Quantitative Analysis, 1714–1803 (Thesis) ViewCite

Isle of Canes and Issues of Conscience (Southern Quarterly) ViewCite

Laying a Legend to Rest: Marie Thérèse Coincoin & Archaeological Sites 16NA785 and 16NA789ViewCite

Louis Monet’s Daughters Dorothée and Dorothée: Sorting Tri-Racial RootsViewCite

Missionaries Compromised: Early Evangelization of Slaves (Cross, Crozier and Crucible) ViewCite

Quintanilla’s Crusade, 1775–1803: ‘Moral Reform’ and Its Consequences (Louisiana History) ViewCite

Social and Family Patterns... Louisiana (Sociological Spectrum) ViewCite

Historiography & Genealogical Theory

Evidence Analysis & Usage

Working with Historical Evidence ViewCite

Evidence Analysis: A Process Map ViewCite

Interdisciplinary Prospects

Academia vs. Genealogy: Prospects for Reconciliation and Progress (1983) ViewCite

Ethnicity and the Southern Genealogist (2018)ViewCite

Genealogy in the Information Age: History’s New Frontier? (2003) ViewCite

Bridging the Historic Divide: Family History and ‘Academic’ History (2007) ViewCite

Individual Case Studies: By Ethnicity

African America & Slavery

Demythicizing History: Marie Thérèse Coincoin, Tourism, and the National Historic Landmarks Program (Louisiana History) ViewCite

Documenting a Slave’s Birth, Parentage, and Origins (Marie Thérèse Coincoin, 1742–1816): A Test of "Oral History" ViewCite

Laying a Legend to Rest: Marie Thérèse Coincoin & Archaeological Sites 16NA785 and 16NA789ViewCite

Louis Monet’s Daughters Dorothée and Dorothée: Sorting Tri-Racial RootsViewCite

Mézières, Trichel, Grappe: A Study of Tri-Caste Lineages ViewCite

Mother, Thy Name is Mystery! Finding the Slave Who Bore Philomene Daurat ViewCite

Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers View Cite

Which Marie Louise Is ‘Mariotte’? Sorting Slaves with Common Names ViewCite

Creole Louisiana

Demythicizing History: Marie Thérèse Coincoin, Tourism, and the National Historic Landmarks Program (Louisiana History) ViewCite

Deliberate Fraud and Mangled Evidence ... Anne Marie Philippe ViewCite

Identifying Jean Baptiste Derbanne of ... the Gálvez Campaigns ... Revolutionary War ViewCite

Laying a Legend to Rest: Marie Thérèse Coincoin & Archaeological Sites 16NA785 and 16NA789ViewCite

Louis Monet’s Daughters Dorothée and Dorothée: Sorting Tri-Racial RootsViewCite

Louise Marguerite: St. Denis’ Other Daughter ViewCite

Parallel Lives: Philippe de La Renaudière and Philippe (de) Renault ViewCite

(See also African America and Slavery)

The Forgotten People of America ViewCite

Anglo South

Anderson of Buckingham: A Case Study in Family Reconstruction within a ‘Burned County’ (Part 1) ViewCite

Anderson of Buckingham: A Case Study within a ‘Burned County’ (Part 2) ViewCite

A Husband for Phoebe Jefferson ViewCite

Applying the Preponderance-of-the-Evidence Principle to a Southern Frontier Problem: Medders of Alabama ViewCite

Identifying a Teenaged Mother: Odom, Williams, Sessums ViewCite

Identifying a Teenaged Mother: Odom, Williams, Sessums-Appendix ViewCite

In Search of ‘Mr. Ball’: An Exercise in Finding Fathers ViewCite

Roundabout Research: Pursuing Collateral Lines to Prove Parentage — Hanson of Georgia ViewCite

Testing the FAN Principle Against DNA: Zilphy (Watts) Price Cooksey Cooksey ViewCite

The Search for Margaret Ball ViewCite

Unravelling Balls of Yarn: Lessons in the Use of a Skeptical Eye — William Bartholomew Ball ViewCite

William Mills (c1695–1755): Correcting His Identity & Identifying His Y Signature ViewCite

Individual Case Studies: By Type of Problem

‘Burned Counties’ (Record Losses)

Anderson of Buckingham: A Case Study in Family Reconstruction within a ‘Burned County’ (Part 1) ViewCite

Anderson of Buckingham: A Case Study within a ‘Burned County’ (Part 2) ViewCite

The Search for Margaret Ball. ViewCite

Cluster Research (FAN Principle)

Anderson of Buckingham: A Case Study in Family Reconstruction within a ‘Burned County’ (Part 1) ViewCite

Anderson of Buckingham: A Case Study within a ‘Burned County’ (Part 2) ViewCite

A Husband for Phoebe Jefferson ViewCite

Applying the Preponderance-of-the-Evidence Principle to a Southern Frontier Problem ViewCite

Frontier Research Strategies—Weaving a Web to Snare a Birth Family: John Watts (ca. 1749–ca. 1822) ViewCite

Identifying a Teenaged Mother: Odom, Williams, Sessums ViewCite

In Search of ‘Mr. Ball’: An Exercise in Finding Fathers ViewCite

Laying a Legend to Rest: Marie Thérèse Coincoin & Archaeological Sites 16NA785 and 16NA789ViewCite

Louis Monet’s Daughters Dorothée and Dorothée: Sorting Tri-Racial RootsViewCite

Roundabout Research: Pursuing Collateral Lines ViewCite

Testing the FAN Principle Against DNA: Zilphy (Watts) Price Cooksey Cooksey ViewCite

The Search for Margaret Ball. ViewCite

Female Lives

A Husband for Phoebe Jefferson ViewCite

Documenting a Slave’s Birth, Parentage, and Origins ViewCite

Identifying a Teenaged Mother: Odom, Williams, Sessums ViewCite

Laying a Legend to Rest: Marie Thérèse Coincoin & Archaeological Sites 16NA785 and 16NA789ViewCite

Louis Monet’s Daughters Dorothée and Dorothée: Sorting Tri-Racial RootsViewCite

Louise Marguerite: St. Denis’ Other Daughter View Cite

Mother, Thy Name is Mystery! Finding the Slave Who Bore Philomene Daurat ViewCite

Testing the FAN Principle Against DNA: Zilphy (Watts) Price Cooksey Cooksey ViewCite

The Search for Margaret Ball. ViewCite

Genetics for History Research

Identifying a Teenaged Mother: Odom, Williams, Sessums ViewCite

Testing the FAN Principle Against DNA: Zilphy (Watts) Price Cooksey Cooksey ViewCite

William Mills (c1695–1755): Correcting His Identity & Identifying His Y Signature ViewCite

Illegitimacy

In Search of ‘Mr. Ball’: An Exercise in Finding Fathers ViewCite

Louis Monet’s Daughters Dorothée and Dorothée: Sorting Tri-Racial RootsViewCite

Louise Marguerite: St. Denis’ Other Daughter ViewCite

Mother, Thy Name is Mystery! Finding the Slave Who Bore Philomene Daurat ViewCite

The Search for Margaret Ball. ViewCite

Name Changes

The Search for Margaret Ball ViewCite

Parental Identity

Anderson of Buckingham: A Case Study in Family Reconstruction within a ‘Burned County’ (Part 1) ViewCite

Anderson of Buckingham: A Case Study within a ‘Burned County’ (Part 2) ViewCite

Applying the Preponderance-of-the-Evidence Principle to a Southern Frontier Problem: Hanson of Georgia ViewCite

Deliberate Fraud and Mangled Evidence ... Anne Marie Philippe ViewCite

Frontier Research Strategies—Weaving a Web to Snare a Birth Family: John Watts (ca. 1749–ca. 1822) ViewCite

Identifying a Teenaged Mother: Odom, Williams, Sessums ViewCite

In Search of ‘Mr. Ball’: An Exercise in Finding Fathers ViewCite

Louis Monet’s Daughters Dorothée and Dorothée: Sorting Tri-Racial RootsViewCite

Mother, Thy Name is Mystery! Finding the Slave Who Bore Philomene Daurat ViewCite

Testing the FAN Principle Against DNA: Zilphy (Watts) Price Cooksey Cooksey ViewCite

Which Marie Louise Is ‘Mariotte’? Sorting Slaves with Common Names ViewCite

William Mills (c1695–1755): Correcting His Identity & Identifying His Y Signature ViewCite

Separating Identities

Frontier Research Strategies—Weaving a Web to Snare a Birth Family: John Watts (ca. 1749–ca. 1822) ViewCite

Identifying Jean Baptiste Derbanne of ... the Gálvez Campaigns ... Revolutionary War ViewCite

Louis Monet’s Daughters Dorothée and Dorothée: Sorting Tri-Racial RootsViewCite

Parallel Lives: Philippe de La Renaudière and Philippe (de) Renault ViewCite

Unravelling Balls of Yarn: Lessons in the Use of a Skeptical Eye — William Bartholomew Ball ViewCite

Which Marie Louise Is ‘Mariotte’? Sorting Slaves with Common Names ViewCite

William Mills (c1695–1755): Correcting His Identity & Identifying His Y Signature ViewCite

Professional Issues

Census Records

Interpreting the Tick Marks on Federal Censuses ViewCite

Census Tick Marks and Codes—Revisited ViewCite

Census Tick Marks and Codes—Revisited Yet Again! ViewCite

Ethics

How Do I Keep My Hats Straight? ViewCite

Evidence

A Template for Evaluating Evidence ViewCite

What’s Your Citation Style? ViewCite

Kinship Terminology

The Kinship Maze: Navigating It with Professional Precision ViewCite

Reconstructing Female Lives

Breathing Life into Shadowy Women from the Past (Coming Soon)Cite

Finding Wives, Mothers, and Old Women with Suitcases View Cite

Resources

Spanish Records: Locating Anglo and Latin Ancestry in the Colonial Southeast ViewCite

Writing

The Great American Novel, Starring ... Your Own Family. Coming Soon  Cite

Elizabeth Shown Mills | Copyright 2011–