Last week, I completed Lesson 4: Finding Death Information of the National Genealogical Society Family History Skills course. The lesson offered a good overview of finding, deriving, and citing sources for death information. While much of the basic information I already knew, I did learn about some new potential sources, finding aids, and tools. Sources The […]
Family History Skills: Family and Published Sources
I’m slowly working my way through the online “Family History Skills” course offered by the National Genealogical Society. I just finished Lesson Two: Family and Published Sources and I really learned a lot. This lessson covers Published Sources, Finding Published Sources, and Source Citations. The second section: Finding Published Sources was the most valuable to me. […]
Family History Skills: Genealogical Basics
One of my To-Do items for March is to take the online “Family History Skills course” provided by the National Genealogical Society. This course is offered free to NGS members; NSG offers several other online courses for fees, so I wanted to take the free course first, to see if I like it. It’s a […]
March Genealogy To-Dos
I’m getting a better feel for what can be accomplished in a “normal” month, with only weekends and a few weeknights to do genealogy. The to-dos for March are: Write 8 blog posts Abstract (or update previously-done abstractions, if necessary) 8 census pages and update the citations. Index some names on FamilySearch Scan 5 photos […]
