Up against a brick wall? Can’t find that missing Great Great Grandmother or unable to prove that Uncle Ben was your Great Grandfather's brother?  Come bring your research. Pastfinders Volunteers have a few tricks up their sleeves, using our research sledge hammers. We will help you chip away at those brick walls. 

April showers got you blue?  Indoors with nothing to do?  Well, pick up a little research and start a new hobby.  Genealogy is a great way of learning about yourself. Family is fantastic and inspiring.  Bring all you know about them and come learn how to organize and compile your family tree.  Please attend both classes starting promptly at 10 AM. Come early! The library opens at 8 AM..

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April showers got you blue?  Indoors with nothing to do?  Well, pick up a little research, start a new hobby.  Genealogy is a great way of learning about yourself. Family is fantastic and inspiring.  Bring all you know about them and come learn how to organize and compile your family tree.  Please attend both classes starting promptly at 10AM.  Come early! The library opens at 8AM.

Getting your family history organized and made available to other members of your family is easy with one of the Genealogy Database Programs.  Family Tree Maker (FTM) is commonly used by many of the Pastfinders Members and therefore I will be demonstrating how to use FTM.  The ability to produce various reports and to store and organize photos and documents is a major reason to use FTM.  Ancestry.com or other on-line Genealogy databases do not have the range of reports that FTM has.

 

Last month we reviewed Part 2, Chapter 4: Documenting Your Research and Including Media Items.

 

In April we will continue where we stopped in March, then continue on to: 

Chapter 7: Using Maps. To use maps you have to use the standardized format for location names.

Chaper 8: Researching Your Tree Online. FTM will automatically find information on familysearch and ancestry (if you are a member, familysearch is free, ancestry costs $99 for 6 months). But you can also search many other places on the web.

Love to have a project to start this summer? Learn how to trace your family; ancestors are quite interesting.  You can get to know them and how they lived by tracing your roots.  Know where your family came from and how they got here from there.  Please attend both classes.  They start promptly at 10 AM.

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Love to have a project to start this summer? Learn how to trace your family; ancestors are quite interesting. You can get to know them and how they lived by tracing your roots. Find out where they came from and how they got here from there.  Please attend both classes. They start promptly at 10AM.