Genealogy Course (4 sessions, 2 hours each)
Prerequisites:
Some knowledge of computer skills to do the research. This will not be a class using Family Tree Maker.
Fee: $60
Description:
Will offer tools of research – where to find them; how to use them
Instructor: David Gray
Goals:- Introduction and Overview
- Use the library to access ancestry
- Use free genealogy program available for download on the net
- Search information on people living within the last 100 years. Have birth and death books from the archives online.
- Use Austin library card to access Heritage Quest online (free). They have census records 1700-1930
- Use digital camera to copy that “box of stuff in the box in the attic” and incorporate that information into the genealogy program.
- Organize for presentation