Lessons
Lesson 8: A Look at Genealogy Software
Lesson 8: A Look at Genealogy Software looks at the enormous and baffling world of genealogy software and demystifies it before your eyes.
This lesson is not another product review comparing brand X to Brand Y; It is an aid that explains in no nonsense terms, what genealogy software is, what it does and what it does not do.
This lesson is designed solely to help the beginning genealogist decide for his or her self if special genealogy software is warranted — and if so, to help sort through the pros, cons, methods of use, and models of application available in an ever-growing and ever-changing marketplace.
A timeless lesson that works to your benefit in deciphering the truth behind the sales pitches.
Your past is uncharted, and filled with boundless potential. Here begins your voyage of discovery! Give yourself the never ending gift of heritage that will become your legacy to future generations. Enroll now in the complete course.
As a student of Genealogy Beginner you will receive a free starter package, containing Family Tree Templates to help set you on your path. Additionally you will receive immediate full membership to our exclusive forums, where you can seek the assistance of our resident genealogist and participate as a member of the Genealogy Beginner community.
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Lesson 7: Searching by Place
Lesson 7: Searching by Place may be not only one of the most beneficial genealogy classes in this series but in any genealogy course.
Filled with critical details and advice for tracing migration routes and immigration patterns, the information provided in this lesson is needed for any successful research where your ancestors have moved around, whether it has been around the globe or around a country.
Lesson seven deals with the common problems associated with geographic ancestral searches. It is an invaluable resource to the beginning genealogists that points out common sense solutions to those problems in a simple easy to follow manner.
To name only a small part of this significant lesson, you will acquire the tools to deal with problems such as:
- Disappearing Villages
- Changing place Names
- Multiple places with the same name
Ancestor hunting by geography is one of the stickiest and most puzzling areas of genealogy research.
Genealogy beginner is here to help you.
Your past is uncharted, and filled with boundless potential. Here begins your voyage of discovery! Give yourself the never ending gift of heritage that will become your legacy to future generations. Enroll now in the complete course.
As a student of Genealogy Beginner you will receive a free starter package, containing Family Tree Templates to help set you on your path. Additionally you will receive immediate full membership to our exclusive forums, where you can seek the assistance of our resident genealogist and participate as a member of the Genealogy Beginner community.
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Lesson 6: What’s in a First Name?
With the sixth entry in Genealogy Beginner lesson plan you will discover the importance of the role first names or Christian names play in tracing your ancestors.
Lesson 6: What’s in a First Name? is filled with surprising and informative facts that will have you hot on the trail of your past generations. Another key lesson in the series, lesson six serves up a concise guide to naming patterns and points out the significance of clues held in middle names that you would never think to look for.
This lesson not only helps steer you toward revealing your next generation it will also help you guard against going down a dead end path by providing some lesser know facts about historical naming practices.
Your past is uncharted, and filled with boundless potential. Here begins your voyage of discovery! Give yourself the never ending gift of heritage that will become your legacy to future generations. Enroll now in the complete course.
As a student of Genealogy Beginner you will receive a free starter package, containing Family Tree Templates to help set you on your path. Additionally you will receive immediate full membership to our exclusive forums, where you can seek the assistance of our resident genealogist and participate as a member of the Genealogy Beginner community.
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Lesson 5: What’s in a Name?
Fun and informative are the two words that come immediately to mind when I think of Lesson 5: What’s in a Name?.
In this amusing lesson you will learn:
- How and why surnames developed
- How to discover the origins of your own unique surname;
And while this lesson is certainly entertaining you will gain an indispensable understanding of the role of surnames in differing cultures.
That information alone could be the key to unlocking the secrets of your specific ancestral interests.
Your past is uncharted, and filled with boundless potential. Here begins your voyage of discovery! Give yourself the never ending gift of heritage that will become your legacy to future generations. Enroll now in the complete course.
As a student of Genealogy Beginner you will receive a free starter package, containing Family Tree Templates to help set you on your path. Additionally you will receive immediate full membership to our exclusive forums, where you can seek the assistance of our resident genealogist and participate as a member of the Genealogy Beginner community.
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Lesson 4: Climbing Your Family Tree
Perhaps the most bewildering of all genealogical charts; the Ancestor or Pedigree Chart, is a constant of family tree building. Simply stated, it is necessary to all genealogists — and one of the easiest things to misunderstand. For many beginning genealogists it seems that it was simply designed to confound and confuse.
In Lesson 4: Climbing Your Family Tree you will begin by mastering the concepts and uses of the various styles of pedigree charts and by its finish you will be reading them and filling them out like a Pro. In this lesson and you will gain priceless knowledge by learning:
- How to tell the difference between the numerous types of pedigree charts (there are several)
- Hints and tips used by professionals that demystify this confusing chart.
- Which type of chart will work best for your needs
- Much, much, more
Get started today and you are just a few short moments and one small step away from building your own family tree with precision and accuracy.
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Your past is uncharted, and filled with boundless potential. Here begins your voyage of discovery! Give yourself the never ending gift of heritage that will become your legacy to future generations. Enroll now in the complete course.
As a student of Genealogy Beginner you will receive a free starter package, containing Family Tree Templates to help set you on your path. Additionally you will receive immediate full membership to our exclusive forums, where you can seek the assistance of our resident genealogist and participate as a member of the Genealogy Beginner community.
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Lesson 3: Getting Organized
Lesson 3: Getting Organized is a DO NOT MISS lesson in the series!
Why? Because the skills you learn in this lesson will become essential to all future research!
In Lesson three you will be introduced to the various and numerous data types that you will encounter as you progress with your research.
The organizational methods taught in this pivotal lesson will decrease your chances of overlapping your inquiries; which is very easy to do after even just a few months of ancestor searches.
Take advantage of this opportunity to master your genealogical organizational skills and gain confidence and competence today.
Your past is uncharted, and filled with boundless potential. Here begins your voyage of discovery! Give yourself the never ending gift of heritage that will become your legacy to future generations. Enroll now in the complete course.
As a student of Genealogy Beginner you will receive a free starter package, containing Family Tree Templates to help set you on your path. Additionally you will receive immediate full membership to our exclusive forums, where you can seek the assistance of our resident genealogist and participate as a member of the Genealogy Beginner community.
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Lesson 2: First Steps
First Steps is the second lesson in Genealogy Beginner’s step by step educational series — and here is where the real work starts, as you learn to mount of the most important rungs in building your family tree.
This lesson guides you through your first encounter with genealogical forms — an extensive and often confusing subject, but necessary to document the vital information of your ancestors. Enroll now to study this key lesson, and learn to better spend your time on real research, rather than getting tangled up in paperwork.
Lesson two’s simple format outlines everything you will need to get started on those all important first steps and is a logical continuation from Lesson 1: The Big Five.
Your past is uncharted, and filled with boundless potential. Here begins your voyage of discovery! Give yourself the never ending gift of heritage that will become your legacy to future generations. Enroll now in the complete course.
As a student of Genealogy Beginner you will receive a free starter package, containing Family Tree Templates to help set you on your path. Additionally you will receive immediate full membership to our exclusive forums, where you can seek the assistance of our resident genealogist and participate as a member of the Genealogy Beginner community.
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Lesson 1: The Big Five
I know. Who can get excited about Standards of Proof? Only anyone who wants to avoid the disappointment of false starts, wasted effort, and common fledgling mistakes.
After months of work, there is nothing more disheartening than discovering that your results are in question. Consider the lady who took a round trip to Scotland to visit the town of her ancestors, only to realize on her return that she had visited the wrong town — or the two fellows who enjoyed a long relationship as distant cousins; after many years they discovered they were not related at all. They’re still friends, so it worked out okay. Even so, one can imagine the upset.
Even I have experienced this issue; once after toiling for ages with a very frustrating brick wall, another genealogist presented me with what I thought might have been a breakthrough. When I contacted him, however, I found that I was his source of information on the issue — even though my website clearly states that the evidence for the individual in question is unproven.
Unfortunately discovering that all of one’s long hours are wasted, and that now one needs to start again, is a situation that many a beginning genealogists will face. Why? Only because they did not know the Big 5 Basic Guidelines of the Genealogical Proof Standards. Not knowing that some sources may contain errors, and that not all research — either in print or online — is credible and factual, can be a costly and time-consuming mistake.
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Sample Lesson
March 19, 2011 by Chris Clegg
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