DGS member Patricia Law Hatcher, CG, FASG, has written many articles and books on genealogy. Between 2000 and 2006, Pat wrote a series articles for Ancestry Daily News. The articles deal with methodology, sources, colonial life, problem solving, and adventures encountered in research. The subjects of the columns, taken as a whole, demonstrate what genealogy and family history is and should be about.
She has reformatted the articles into one-page pdf versions for publishing on the DGS website. These may be read online or downloaded and printed.
| Date Published | Title | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 2/24/2000 | Lessons Learned from a Jigsaw Puzzle | Read Article |
| 3/23/2000 | I Hate Leftovers! | Read Article |
| 4/5/2000 | Writing a Successful Letter of Instruction | Read Article |
| 4/12/2000 | Separating Men of the Same Name | Read Article |
| 8/30/2000 | Recordinand Interpreting Dates | Read Article |
| 8/30/2000 | Dates-When You Don’t Have a Record | Read Article |
| 11/15/2000 | Using Dates to Improve Your Research | Read Article |
| 11/29/2000 | Red Flags and Rationalization | Read Article |
| 12/14/2000 | All the Easy Ancestors Are Taken | Read Article |
| 12/27/2000 | In Praise of Whole-Family Genealogy | Read Article |
| 1/9/2001 | Where will your research take you in 2001? | Read Article |
| 1/24/2001 | Where Were Your Ancestors in 1790? | Read Article |
| 3/29/2001 | Investigating Family Stories | Read Article |
| 4/1/2001 | 1790-Families Projects | Read Article |
| 4/25/2001 | Mundane Records | Read Article |
| 5/31/2001 | Abstracts, Transcripts, and Extracts | Read Article |
| 6/21/2001 | Vital Informatin Without Vital Registration – Birth Records | Read Article |
| 6/28/2001 | Vital Informatin Without Vital Registration – Marriage and Death Records | Read Article |
| 1/14/2002 | Lessons Learned From A Jigsaw Puzzle – II | Read Article |
| 3/19/2002 | STB – Three Letters To Avoid A Genealogical Pitfall | Read Article |
| 4/3/2002 | Genealogical Advice From Shirlock Holmes | Read Article |
| 5/2/2002 | The Secret Professionals Don’t Share | Read Article |
| 5/16/2002 | Is the Record Wrong? Likely Mistakes | Read Article |
| 5/30/2002 | Likely and Unlikely Mistakes | Read Article |
| 6/24/2002 | Got a Problem? Quit Looking For The Answer | Read Article |
| 7/11/2002 | A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Land Office | Read Article |
| 7/31/2002 | A Genealogist’s Holiday | Read Article |
| 8/26/2002 | Searching For Substance | Read Article |
| 9/12/2002 | Problem Solving With Hypotheses | Read Article |
| 9/26/2002 | Record Density | Read Article |
| 2/18/2003 | Rewards | Read Article |
| 2/27/2003 | Typing Every Word | Read Article |
| 3/6/2003 | Paper Chains and Popcorn | Read Article |
| 3/20/2003 | Genealogy on Four Hours a Week | Read Article |
| 4/1/2003 | Tax Time in Pennsylvania | Read Article |
| 4/17/2003 | The Ecclesiastical Calendar | Read Article |
| 5/1/2003 | Seeking Siblings | Read Article |
| 5/15/2003 | Lessons Learned on Four Hours Per Week | Read Article |
| 5/29/2003 | Indexing as a Research Tool | Read Article |
| 6/26/2003 | Collecting Your Ancestors Markers | Read Article |
| 7/3/2003 | Using Your Ancestors Markers | Read Article |
| 7/17/2003 | Precious Siblings | Read Article |
| 8/21/2003 | Corroborating or Conflicting Evidence | Read Article |
| 9/18/2003 | Write Now? Yes Right Now | Read Article |
| 10/2/2003 | Five Steps to Organizing Your Research | Read Article |
| 10/13/2003 | Judging Your Own Research | Read Article |
| 12/16/2003 | Evaluating Abstracts | Read Article |
| 1/30/2004 | What is Your Favorite Flavor? | Read Article |
| 2/13/2004 | Genealogical Bad Luck | Read Article |
| 2/24/2004 | Visiting the State Archives | Read Article |
| 3/16/2004 | As Time Goes By | Read Article |
| 3/22/2004 | Colonial Communications – Newspapers, Broadsides and the Post | Read Article |
| 4/13/2004 | It’s an Audio World | Read Article |
| 4/19/2004 | In Praise of Peiodicals | Read Article |
| 5/6/2004 | Electronic Versions of Periodicals | Read Article |
| 5/20/2004 | Using Private Papers in Research | Read Article |
| 6/3/2004 | Finding Private Papers | Read Article |
| 6/18/2004 | Too Late Smart | Read Article |
| 7/15/2004 | Why I Never Get Anything Done on Time | Read Article |
| 7/29/2004 | More than Just a Bunch of Names | Read Article |
| 8/25/2004 | Why Didn’t I See That | Read Article |
| 9/2/2004 | It’s Raining, It’s Pouring | Read Article |
| 9/15/2004 | A Colonial Record Odyssey | Read Article |
| 9/28/2004 | Finding Places | Read Article |
| 10/18/2004 | Published Colony and State Papers | Read Article |
| 10/28/2004 | Why I Never Get Anything Done on Time, Part 2, Following Devilish Leeds | Read Article |
| 11/16/2004 | Ring around a Rosie | Read Article |
| 11/30/2004 | Pease Porridge Hot | Read Article |
| 12/9/2004 | Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Sheep | Read Article |
| 12/27/2004 | Jingle Bells | Read Article |
| 2/1/2005 | Row, Row, Row Your Boat | Read Article |
| 2/10/2005 | Hickory Dickory Dock | Read Article |
| 3/1/2005 | The King Was in His Counting House | Read Article |
| 3/11/2005 | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | Read Article |
| 4/5/2005 | Wings of a Butterfly | Read Article |
| 4/29/2005 | Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross | Read Article |
| 5/19/2005 | Debits and Credits | Read Article |
| 5/31/2005 | Wordscape-Relativity | Read Article |
| 6/14/2005 | Wordscape-Willing Words | Read Article |
| 6/30/2005 | Wordscape-Wills and Special Cases | Read Article |
| 7/12/2005 | Wordscape-Other Probate Records | Read Article |
| 7/29/2005 | Wordscape-Children in Court | Read Article |
| 8/4/2005 | Wordscape-Apprenticeships and Indentures | Read Article |
| 4/4/2005 | Wordscape-Apprenticeships and Indentures | Read Article |
| 9/22/2005 | He Called for His Pipe | Read Article |
| 10/20/2005 | In a Yellow Petticoat and a Green Gown | Read Article |
| 10/27/2005 | Frieze, Kersey, and Ingle | Read Article |
| 11/10/2005 | The Mantua Maker | Read Article |
| 11/22/2005 | The Distaff Side | Read Article |
| 12/13/2005 | Wordscape-Court and Legal | Read Article |
| 12/30/2005 | Looking Backward, Looking Forward | Read Article |
| 1/10/2006 | Flax | Read Article |
| 1/31/2006 | Weaving and Linen | Read Article |
| 2/9/2006 | Happy Anniversary to Us | Read Article |
| 2/22/2006 | The Perils of a Directory Man | Read Article |
| 3/2/2006 | Provisioning Lists | Read Article |
| 3/14/2006 | Early American Life | Read Article |
