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The New England Genealogical Society have joined with Familysearch and LDS members can have free access to their site. They named their web site “American Ancestors.”

This is one of the perks that familysearch is giving to us for doing our work. Come and learn how to use this new site. I am very excited to learn to find more documents about my early American ancestors.

Getting Started with Ancestry.com

There are over 100 apps to be found in the APP gallery.  In this class we learn how to get into the APP gallery and how to move around in it to find the app you are looking for.  We will demonstrate the use of several of the apps.  You will be impressed.

This class is not teaching about genealogy and how it is done, but is designed to help those who are just learning about computers and how they work.

We take an in-depth look at the things you can do with the word processor to make the documents you produce come to life.   

Learn how to find your ancestors and their records in Denmark.

Would you like to do more temple work in your own family?  Do you need temple names for youth to do?  Learn how to find counsins that are related to you and qualify them for temple work.  The LDS church's family tree is giving you lots of hints to find such cousins.  Puzzilla.org is an app that also helps to find ends of lines that have not been found yet.  Come and learn how to research or attach sources so the work can be done by you.

I took the test....now what?  Lear how to use the information you received from the test results. What does it all mean?

The basis of research after 1837 includes extensive use of the 1841 – 1911 census records, civil registration records and index of births, marriages, and deaths from 1837 forward (years of availability vary for each group of records), and use of the newly available GRO (General Register’s Office) records. In addition, the church records of the Church of England including parish maps and non-conformist denominations are a valuable source of information for your English and Welsh families. the General Probate Registry beginning in 1859 is another valuable resource. Come and learn how to find and use these great resources, many of which are now available at no charge by using online records. Search strategies will be also presented.

Premium websites are available in the Family History Center-Portals for research.  These can only be accessed from the Family History Center Computers.  If you wanted to access them from your home computer, the premium websites would require a paid subscription.  

These 3 classes are to be studied and learned together. Each class builds on the next and prepares you for more cleaning and getting the records as correct as possible to give our book of life to the Lord when that time comes.

You can now index on your tablets of or other mobile devices.  No downloads are required!  Come learn the new program.  Searchable only.  Indexing is vital to temple and family history work because it helps "fuel the find"; through indexed records, more and more people are now able to find their family members and add them to their family trees so they can perform temple ordinances.  Because of Indexing, more SOURCES are becoming available every day!!

Do you find duplicates in your life?  Are there wives, children or duplicate parents you don't recognize?  Being able to find and merge duplicate records will help solve some problems in your family tree.

Military records are found in many places on the internet from 1785 to the Vietnam war.  You will learn how to find specific records on different websites, and how to google unusual records.  Pension files and how to order them, are so important and you can find much information on other members of the serviceman's family.  Death records can be found as well as marriage dates and places.  Some explain what they did in the service, and where they served.   

This class is designed to help you discover the many ways that newspapers can aid in your research.  Newspapers can provide clues and information that cannot be found anywhere else!  Newspapers contain birth, marriage, death notices, obituaries, photographs, passenger lists, military news, biographical sketches, citizenship notices, land transactions, and a host of other information.  Access to historical newspapers has never been better.  Come and see what you have been missing!

Two Norwegian Research classes are offered:  Part 1 and Part 2.  It is strongly recommended that both classes are attended in order.  The material is not duplicated.  There will be both instruction and “hands on computer” time plus handouts and worksheets.  The instructor will be Barbara Waagen for both classes.

'''Part 1:'''  Topics covered include:  A brief history of Norway, geography and land divisions, helps to “cross the pond” using USA immigration records and Norway emigration records.  Also discussed will be handwriting helps for confidence in reading the original records, and naming customs. Learn how to use the Wiki in FamilySearch as a resource. Learn how to access Norwegian Church records for FREE.

'''Part 2:'''  This section is designed to utilize the information from Part 1 in compiling an actual family.  Topics covered in Part 2 include: A research process guide, a key word list, calculating actual dates from feast dates, hints for using farm histories and census records, and using Norwegian parish records including birth/christening, marriage, license and banns, and death/burials.  Students will be challenged to complete a prepared research project in the actual parish records using a real family for experience to find all children in the family and parents.

This class will use the GIMP program for the class.  While it is an extensive photo program, we will be focusing on the 7 tools in that program to allow a person to take out blemishes in the photo.  We will learn how to repair rips and tears, or folds in the picture.  Please bring a photo you would like to have repaired.  This picture must already be scanned and put on your flash drive.  You will have time to practice on a computer.

The Puzzilla name refers to finding and assembling pieces of a puzzle to complete the whole picture, the essence of the genealogical research process.  Puzzilla will retrieve the latest information available from Family Tree.

If you would like to find family names to take to the temple, and/or complete your family tree, there is no better way to find them than with Puzzilla.

Learning how to do research is not a difficult task these days. Familytree has many hints already to attach to your ancestor. Make sure it is the correct record for your family.

Going beyond what family search gives you, you will learn what information to look for on a record, especially those easier ones like census records. Learn to glean the most you can from looking at the original record, not just an indexed record. Did you know they don’t index everything that might be important to you? We have staff on hand to help you practice what you learn today.

No matter what personal genealogy program you decide to use, the most important thing is that you have one.  You do not need to be a professional researcher as even those who have the most casual approach to dipping your toes into the world of genealogical research can greatly benefit from having a way to store and/or share your family stories and data.  RootsMagic is a very versatile and easy to use program even for those who know only the basics of computer use.  In the Basic RootsMagic Class, I will explain how to obtain RootsMagic, set up the program on your computer and/or flash drive and tap into and link the data and sources available to anyone interested in using Family Search/Family Tree with assistance for obtaining access to Family Search if needed.  But unlike Family Search, RootsMagic is your own private data base allowing you to have control over what information you choose to included and what part of that information you may want to share.  We will go over the basic features of the program including:  logging in, starting and naming files, finding and adding people, data entry and editing, navigating tabs and views, and of course, how to back up and share your files.  This class is open to anyone interested in researching and saving Family History.

There are tweeks and tricks in advanced RootsMagic that will help you organize a family reunion, print out data sheets to find what might be missing in a person’s life information, sheets to find who was living in a particular area and time, color code direct ancestors, add photos and documents, merge options, gazetteer, internet tools for sharing and searching and publishing.  You can also print out Reports:  narrative, custom, individual summary, Family Group Sheets, Pedigree charts and others.  We will go over some of these and introduce you to others and as always there are no dumb questions.  RootsMagic is a wonderful programs that does more than just store data.  It also lets you do things with that information in many different ways that are helpful to really personalize “your” files.

Before you upload your pictures or documents to your flash drive, or to Family Search, they must be digitized.  This class will teach you how to use the scanners at the Center to digitize your material, including slides, pictures and negatives.  You will also learn how to scan a book, or multi-page documents.

Two Swedish Research classes are offered-Part 1 and Part 2.  It is strongly recommended that both classes are attended in order.  The material is not duplicated.  There will be both instruction and computer “hands on” time plus handouts and worksheets.

I can look for the state or country or county my ancestor lived in and see what is recommended for finding a record about my ancestor. Can it really be this simple? They have had these as printed guides for many years, but now because the collections online change so quickly they have created a site where you can go to see the latest and greatest information about, well almost anything genealogy oriented. We have 21 computers available for you to start learning what is available for you to find that hidden record about your ancestor. Come join in our workshop after the class.

Suggestions on what to include in your life history and how to get started.  52 Questions to consider.