One month from now, you’ll be sitting in your most comfortable chair and reading through the fabulous syllabus that accompanied the virtual GRIP Genealogy Institute course “BEYOND Digging Deeper: Sources, Methods, and Practices.” It will be the day AFTER the course ends. But, only if you have registered and attended this online course! It’s not […]
Exciting news from the Hennepin County Library System! More online and free city directories have been added for Minneapolis and other cities in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The following can now be accessed from the already valuable online collection. This announcement fits into one of the sessions I am teaching online June 23-27 . It’s part […]
April 26, 2025. Saturday Virtual Presentation as part of the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists Virtual Spring Conference. Three speakers on writing and publishing. My topic is “A Baker’s Dozen: Easy Ways to Begin Writing Your Family History” and registrants receive a syllabus and access to recordings of the sessionshttps://www.nhsog.org/conferences. May 17, 2025. Saturday Webinar. […]
One of the sessions I am teaching at this June’s virtual GRIP course Beyond Digging Deeper: Sources Methods, and Practices, is “Mining the Written Words of Repositories, Societies, and their Staff.” A perfect example of this is one of the electronic newsletters I receive from the Minnesota Historical Society. Via that I learned about this […]
If you live in the Great Lakes region in either Canada or the U.S., this course has some superb education for you. If some or all of your ancestral families resided in the region, this course will assist you in learning more about them. If family members worked in the region, this course will fill […]
Over the last month I have prepared 8,162 pages of syllabus content for the my 2025 GRIP Genealogy Institute new virtual course “Digging Deeper: Sources, Methods, and Practices.” My instructors in this course have prepared 9,854 pages. Then I updated and expanded 3,100 pages for Cari Taplin’s GRIP returning course “The Spirit of the Inland […]
I have been doing family history research in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and several U.S. northern border states for many years. What are your areas of interest? This course takes you beyond the usual. Being a part of this course might show that you have some additional Great Lakes region connections. Will […]
UPDATE: The course is now 2/3 full so don’t delay your registration. Join us for the 23-27 June 2025 virtual week long course Beyond Digging Deeper! The day before, 22 June, is when we gather virtually for a short while to learn more about GRIP, Zoom, meet each other, and get questions answered. This course […]
It’s almost here. 2 more days! Online registration for GRIP Genealogy Institute 2025 is on Tuesday February 4 at 1:00 pm EST for the June online courses, 3:00 pm EST for the July in-person courses. Please join my NEW online course 22-27 June and also enjoy fantastic instructors & an extensive syllabus that is only […]
What are you doing in June and July? Maybe some genealogical research and hopefully that will be accompanied by continuing genealogical education? There’s always more to learn and I have some wonderful suggestions for that education. This institute has been around for quite a while and the number of returning students is a testament to […]