About these Lessons
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| Watching TJ as he learns to paint a wall mural. |
DearREADERS,
Each year thousands of people discover the joys of tracing their family history. It is one of the MOST popular hobbies (albeit obsessions) in the work. Your e-mails and blog comments reflect the challenges you are facing. Sometimes your questions are very specific, and often overwhelming to beginning researchers who might read one of my columns.
Each year thousands of people discover the joys of tracing their family history. It is one of the MOST popular hobbies (albeit obsessions) in the work. Your e-mails and blog comments reflect the challenges you are facing. Sometimes your questions are very specific, and often overwhelming to beginning researchers who might read one of my columns.
To make things easier for real beginners, Ol' Myrt here is creating this special area which will hold each article in succession. So check back each week or so for the next lesson.
May I suggest that you print out a copy of each article and keep them all in a folder or notebook for easy reference. Make notes in the margin as you study. All you have to do to PRINT is click the "PRINT FRIENDLY" button on the bottom of each blog post here at DearMYRTLE. This will strip out the side navigation bar and advertising so you can save printer paper. Voila! You have a printed copy of the lesson!
I look forward to hearing about your progress -- the joys and triumphs as well as the challenges. Indeed, family history can be fun!
You can DO this!
Beginning Genealogy Lessons
- Beginning #1 - Birth Records as Primary Evidence
- Beginning #2 - Choosing genealogy management software
- Beginning #3 - Modifying Dropbox for Genealogists
- Beginning #4 - Archaic Terms
- ... to be continued
Some Technology Won't Hurt
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| Beverly and Glen S. Player, circa 1920. Salt Lake City, Utah. |
- OK - More about Dropbox - synchronize files between computers, and store files via the internet
- Questions from the Blogging for Beginners webinar
- Selected links for blog writers
- Note-keeping during the research process
- Using a blog for research note-taking
- REAL GeneaBloggers don't SPLOG
- Life in a cloud: You CAN do it, but SHOULD you?
- Starting your own blog: Why
- Cool Tool: Hi-Lite.org
- Great Lectures on the Cheap
- One blink or two?
For the Fun of It
- Sweet as a Peach - Embracing Traditions
- Gramma Myrtle's Raspberry Jam
- Food traditions & Gramma Myrtle
Critical Thinking
- Workspace for creating proof arguments
- Being Politically Correct: What should we do as historians?
- Docu-Challenge: William Warner Player baptismal record
- Drowning in newspapers
- Docu-Challenge: Death certificate analysis
- Frustrated by GEDCOM incompatibilities
- Research is more than information gathering
