- How do I know if I am ready to participate in this intermediate course?
- Have researched basic censuses, some vital records, and some newspaper research. Imagine going further into these and then finding more after some sessions.
- Need ideas for where more records can be found online and in libraries, archives, courthouses, and other places?
- Know that keeping track of where you found a record is vital and you need to be better yet flexible at that.
- Need some hand holding along your journey?
- Know that great instructors are ready to help.
- Realizing that suggestions from or for another researcher also clicks on the proverbial light bulb in your mind.
- Ready a few laughs, too.
2. Methodology help. For this course, it’s part of what you grasp from a specific record that may not jump out on first look. Interpreting what it tells you and what it leads to is vital. How does it connect to other records that you didn’t know about? How do certain records provide answers to questions you weren’t aware of! Where are those records for your ancestral areas?
3. Interactive parts. A melding of minds, new ideas, hands-on work, learning from each other, and investigating some of these things in breakout sessions. Analysis can be time consuming and frustrating. But jumping to conclusions or only selectively reading is worse. Apply the new knowledge and resources right away in collaboration with others. Every year we hear from students that this was an important part of the week’s learning.
4. Making the instructors smile. Joining us in the course makes all the instructors happy. Interacting with students and sharing our experience and knowledge is why we do this course. I chose the instructors for multiple reasons and you will totally understand that during the course week. Seeing the students’ smiles and their comments is a big part of this.
Let me know if you have any additional questions, either before or after you register. Post here or send me an email at paulastuartwarren at gmail.com
Learn about the sessions, instructors, and register via https://grip.ngsgenealogy.org/courses/digging-deeper-records-tools-and-skills/
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