January 17 Genealogy 101 Session

We had a great turnout of 15 people to this session, many new members looking for how to get started and current members helping out.  This was a session on "how to get started and how to focus on "Yourself" first", then move backward along your ancestors lines (making sure to go up the father and mother side of the family).  Our next session on February 7th will review the homework assignments and then begin to use FamilySearch.org to look up some of our heritage.  The homework was to start a pedigree chart and then do several family group sheets.

Here are the handouts and a video for refresh:

1) Homework page: Click here
2) Pedigree Chart: Click here
3) Family Group Worksheet: Click here
4) Search Sources checklist: Click here
5) Relationship Chart: Click here
6) Genealogy 101 Video: Click here

Here are some useful websites to look at before our next meeting:

1) FamilySearch.org : click here
2) Family Tree Maker (genealogy software for your computer - $): click here