Showing posts with label seniors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seniors. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2011

Getting Started in Genealogy Series

These three sessions are offered at the NEW Brooklin Community Centre
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Getting Started in Genealogy
All three Workshops for only $18.55
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. - Nov. 7, 14, 21
I. Who’s Your Grandpa?
Where to begin, searching your home, talk to family, 
family data, research cycle, repositories, Internet, 
organizations, pedigree chart and family group sheets & 
descendants’ charts and more.

II. Base Camp for Family History
Organizing ideas, other researchers, places to find family histories, military records, online histories, familysearch.org, queries & message boards,
 search engines, genealogy software.

III. Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, Deaths
This workshop’s content is more focussed and detailed.
Selected topics: sources; search techniques, documenting and more.

Offered in partnership with the 
Durham Region Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.
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Registration Begins Aug 10, 2011.
Pick up an Activity Guide at a Whitby municipal building or download . . .
See Page 4 on how and where to register & Page 52 for description.
You must have a current Senior Services Membership
Card to register for this Seniors' course.