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Finding Existing Genealogy  Friday 3-5 pm Sep 16, 2005 through Oct 28, 2005
  How to do a survey of What's been done ?

In any research project one needs to do a survey of what has been done in your subject area by others.  In this class we will survey the libraries on the internet to find catalog entries of what has been done and make a to do list from it.  We will then find the actual genealogies shared online, and then gather them into Legacy Family tree.  The next step is to learn how to share your genealogy online and in GEDCOM format.

By the end of this 7 week workshop you will make a CD-ROM containing genealogies with your ancestors' surnames.

* this class requires intermediate knowledge of the windows computing environment

Class 1 Sep 16, 2005 - Library Catalogs online

  1. Library catalogs online
  2. Genealogy software
  3. What's new in Legacy version 6
  4. create timelines in Legacy version 6

Class 2 Sep 23, 2005 - Making a to-do list

  1. Legacy’s Research Guidance helps you locate records that may contain information about your ancestors. It does this in four steps:
    1. Legacy helps you review an ancestor’s timeline, to be certain that you've already recorded everything you know about the ancestor.
    2. Legacy suggests preliminary survey sources to help you learn if the research is already in progress by another researcher.
    3. After you have selected your goals, Legacy provides a list of prioritized suggestions to help you accomplish them.
    4. Finally, Legacy organizes the sources into a To-Do List. Legacy to do lists
  2. Family history library catalog  www.familysearch.org 

Class 3 Sep 30, 2005 - GEDCOM online

  1. Buy those old books ?
  2. Find Research done by others
  3. RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project
  4. Volume 4 Pedigree Resource File, CDs 76–100

4th class , Oct 7, 2005 - downloading GEDCOM

  1. What is GEDCOM?

  2. eogen - GEDCOM Two and a half years ago a new GEDCOM standard was proposed that is to be based upon XML, ... However, don't look for this new GEDCOM 6.0 any time soon. ...

  3. Internet GEDCOM Resources
  4. Downloading Family Trees
  5. Search for a Name, Find a Family
  6. Pedigree Resource File download
  7. Download from WFT
  8. The ultimate surname genealogy book

5th class , Oct 14, 2005 - Importing GEDCOM

  1. Using the Import Wizard; Exporting from Other Programs
  2. Import wizard
  3. Importing a GEDCOM File in PAF*
  4. Reunion 6 lets you import and export Gedcom files
  5. Converting from other programs to Rootsmagic
  6. http://www.math.clemson.edu/~rsimms/genealogy/ll/gedcom55.pdf
  7. import information to FTM 2005
  8. See if you can find the Spring 2005 magazine "Heritage Quest," published by Heritage Creations (www.HeritageQuestMagazine.com).  Pages 76-79 had an article called "Electronic Maps." 
     
    Here are the URLs from the article.

     

6th class , Oct 21, 2005 - Merging GEDCOM

  1. Merging Records and IntelliShare

  2. FTM 11-2005: How do I merge all duplicate individuals?
  3. FTM 11-2005: How do I merge or combine files?
  4. Find and Merge Duplicate Records with Ease
    by Richard S. Wilson, La Habra, California Reprinted from the NGS Newsletter Vol. 25, Number 3 (May/June 1999) 
  5. Sharing Research Tasks in Legacy:  Using IntelliShare
    by David Berdan, President, Millennia Corp.
  6.  Rootsmagic merge

  7. Genealogy Software Reviews 2005
     Listed in order of rating
    Legacy
    Family Tree Maker
    Ancestral Quest
    #4 Personal Ancestral File
    #5 RootsMagic
    #6 Family Historian
    #7 DoroTree
    #8 The Master Genealogist

     

7th class , Oct 28, 2005 - Creating a CD-ROM

  1. Review the previous 6 weeks with an example
    1. Family group record Tom Duff and wife mary McGhee

    2. 1880 us Census McGhee in Blount Co, TN

    3. ALL McGhee or McGee in 1900 census Blount county

    4. Descendants of Robert McGHEE

    5. Descendants of Alexander MCGHEE

  2. NERO introduction
  3. NERO Backup
  4. Nero 6 Ultra Edition Major Update
  5. Nero 6 Ultra Edition QuickStart Guide
  6.