Second Tuesday: Solving the Case of the Vanishing Grandfather. Detective or Genealogist?
Date/Time
08-Jul-2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern
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Event Description
Second Tuesday is a lunch & learn program designed to provide professional genealogists with the latest insights and advanced knowledge in the field. Each month, a different expert will lead a session on a unique topic, offering valuable perspectives and practical guidance. Open to all APG members.
A potential client contacts you and states their paternal grandfather vanished after the mid-1920s from the Pittsburgh area. No one in the family has found any additional information on him since then. The good news is that the client has a good hand-written family tree. As a genealogist you would check the 1920 Census and find the last recorded source document on him, and then you search for more recent census records, death records etc. You find nothing and advise the client you are unable to find any additional information on the vanished grandfather. But as a detective....you look at all the other events involving him or potentially involving him. I advised my client of some possible leads, does she want me to continue researching? She says yes, please continue!
Join Paul Campbell-Trimbur to find out if he solved the case of the "Vanishing Grandfather". Paul was born in Pittsburgh. He grew up reading mystery novels and watching Alfred Hitchcock/Ellery Queen movies and television programs. Not surprising that he became a federal law enforcement agent (U.S. Postal Inspector) working in the Baltimore and Washington DC area and now retired. But he continues to investigate as a genealogist and a house historian back in Pittsburgh.
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