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Today is January 31st, 2020! C.L.L. "Growing Your Family Tree"

Websites for today's Lesson Plan (and then some)?

Exercise Your Genealogical Research Every Day!

1.  Rootstech?  What, Where, When (online sessions)

2.  Sharing Your Family Tree 

3.  Genealogy Software 

4.  What is a "Gedcom"?  And why do you need it?  

5.  Where can I find historical records and documents? 

6.  What is a Family History Center and Where Can I find one? 

7.  Family History Fair will happen at the FWB Church of Jesus Christ of LDS on March 7th, 2020.  Fliers next week!

8.  Search Facebook for Genealogy!

9.  Search Google for Genealogy (there's a book about this; was at FWB Library, last time I check or check at Amazon.

10.  ReadOkaloosa.org 

11.  WorldCat.org 

12.  Google Books 

13.  Digitized books (other) (Maybe) Use search engine to find your own links for this topic.

14.  Archive Grid 

15.  Library of Congress 

 

 

The Research Cycle: More help online in understanding and utilizing this tool!

You can ignore or forget some principles of family history research.  You can even try to re-invent the wheel.  But some of these websites will show you that some "rules" are indeed golden!  Before you try to re-invent the wheel, try exploring and testing what has helped the research and discovery process in the past.

What is the research cycle?   Where can you find information, documents, resources?
1.  Begin with yourself.  Write down or record what you know about the ancestor (family), already.  Use charts, forms, software or grab a notebook!
2.  Interview a relative.   For some of us, it is a little late in the game, as we don't have a lot of living relatives left to interview!  However, you can still connect with cousins.  You'd be surprised at what they might know or have on hand.  And if you think you don't have any cousins, get your dna test and see what happens!  Of course, it may be true---that you don't have any cousins, but did your father or your mother have siblings who had children and/or cousins?  If so, then they may only be once removed.  If your grandparents had cousins, they are twice removed.  You might not find living relatives, but explore and research these folks AND their descendants! 

Givens Reunion 2015  !Cousins!

3.  Gather and/or pursue documents.  Are they in a box, somewhere?  Graduation certificates, birth announcements, marriage invitations, Christmas Cards?
4.  Where can you send for birth, marriage, and death certificates (United States)?

 

Growing Your Family Tree presentation

I just created a "Slideshare"/power point presentation.  Here is the link:

 https://www.slideshare.net/margaretmharris/honey-bee-research-cycle-and-more

A spot of news!

This link will take you to an all purpose site RE: charts.  Now, you know what you can give for Christmas gifts NEXT YEAR!