Organizing Genealogical Information-July/August 2013

Need to grow your research skills this summer? Consider taking our homework-optional class! If you have registered you should have received your welcome message--email me at mjnrootdig@gmail.com if you did not.

Organizing Genealogical Information:

A Short Course

With Michael John Neill

(scroll down for specific schedule)

Organizing information is an important part of genealogical research—perhaps more important than the actual research. This short course (only 4 sessions) is intended to provide the students with exposure to a variety of ways to organize information with an emphasis on problem-solving. The course will consist of four lectures (topics and schedule below), problem assignments, virtual follow-up discussions, group discussion board interaction, and student submission of work (optional). There is no assigned grade—you get from this what you put into it. Students will also be able to share their work and ideas with other students.

Citation of sources is important, but presentations will not focus on citation theory.

This time the course will be presented a little bit differently. Students will be able to download the lecture and view it at their convenience--ideally all on the same day that the download link is sent to registered students.

Course registration is only $30 for this run of the course. Class size is limited to 30 to encourage group interaction. Attendees will need to register 24 hours before the class starts. If you registered for a previous session and were not able to actively participate--email me to be put in this series at no charge.

• Assignment/Study 1—Charts, Charts, and More Charts (we will discuss a variety of charts and table to organize your information and your searches—all students work on same problem
• Assignment/Study 2—4 Step Research Process (we will discuss a four-step process to research organization)—pick your own problem
• Assignment/Study 3— Constructing Families from pre-1850 Census (discuss of how to ascertain family structure from pre-1850 US census records)---all work on same problem
• Assignment/Study 4— Problem Solving Chart (problem-solving techniques not discussed in previous lectures)– pick your own problem

Register via this link.

Lecture downloads:

• 21 July
• 28 July
• 4 August
• 11 August

Discussions:

• 23 July 8:45 PM Central
• 25 July 8:45 PM Central
• 7 August 8:45 PM Central 
• 14 August 8:45 PM Central

Lectures and discussions will be via GotoMeeting.

Register via this link.

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Thanks!

Michael
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Michael John Neill
Genealogy Tip of the Day
http://genealogytipoftheday.blogspot.com

Florida Memory Collection

Those with Florida connections may wish to check out the Florida Memory Collection at the website of the Florida Division of Information and Library Services. Over 300,000 records from their collection have been digitized.

The link is:
http://floridamemory.com/collections/

Northern New York Historical Newspapers

From their website about "Northern New York Historical Newspapers" contains 2.3 million images and is::

"Created and maintained by the Northern New York Library Network, the online collection contains historical newspapers from counties that include Clinton, Essex, Oswego, and St. Lawrence."

Check it out here:

http://news.nnyln.net/

Michigan County Histories Online

From their website:

The Michigan County Histories and Atlases Digitization Project is comprised of 428 digitized titles (many composed of multiple volumes) published before 1923.

Give it a try here http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/

Papers of the United States Founding Fathers

If there is any chance your relative interacted with one of the United States' earliest presidents, check out the website  http://founders.archives.gov/ which contains papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 119,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative, federally funded Founding Fathers Papers projects.

Master Title Plat Abbreviations--Helps with GLO Tract Books

For those who use the GLO Tract books, here is a link to a webpage with quite a few abbreviations used in those books.

Organizing Genealogical Information-Summer 2013 Course

There is information on our Summer 2013 "Organizing Genealogical Information" on our sister website. Check it out.