Genealogy Course (4 sessions, 2 hours each)

Some knowledge of computer skills to do the research. This will not be a class using Family Tree Maker.

Will offer tools of research – where to find them; how to use them

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