“Digging Deeper: Records, Tools, and Skills” Monday Sessions for GRIP Institute

Lunch Break

The WPA Era: A Free Boon for Research (Paula Stuart Warren)
The WPA’s Historical Records Survey arm gave people unprecedented access to knowledge of record descriptions, contents, locations, indexes, abstracts, and more. During the tough economic times in the 1930s and 1940s, this was a government program that put many people to work. It created a goldmine of records that are useful for today’s genealogists. Record transcriptions, courthouse and manuscript inventories, record indexes, city/county histories, and histories of businesses and families may exist for your ancestral locale. Learn more about the program and the results. You may already be using some of the creations but didn’t realize how or by whom they were created. We will also discuss the online explosion of WPA materials and where they are found in 2024.

Citing Your Sources (Debbie Mieszala)
Source citations allow evaluation of a work product’s research depth and conclusions. Citations give insight on sources utilized (or neglected), their facts, potential conflicting evidence, and problem analysis and solutions. Learn citation elements to regularly incorporate source citations into a work product, and how to craft source citation style sheets. Hands-on work reinforces foundations.

Optional Enhancement Session: Roundtable discussion on student submitted problems. (Paula)

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