I diagrammed the movement of enslaved people from one Williams family member to another. Every deed, every Will, every estate inventory, and every tax record citing enslaved people received its own diagrammed work-up. I would make notes linking individual enslaved people from transaction to transaction. I had dozens of sheets of paper in no time at all. Which was fine for me. However, I needed to share this information with an entire research team. Creating a PDF document from dozens of scanned pages wasn’t going to cut it.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://genealogyadventures.net/2017/04/25/why-diversity-matters-for-online-genealogy-service-providers/
