Course Summary
Genealogy Online - Course Leader
Topic 1 - Getting Started
What is genealogy? What sources of information are there? Where to start. Original and secondary records. This course shows you how to go about your search and lists the free websites where you can find the information you need.
Topic 2 - Basic Information: Birth, Marriage And Death Records
Australia, U.K. and elsewhere.
Topic 3 - Census And Other Records
Australia, U.K. and elsewhere. Cemeteries, Parish Registers, immigration, convicts and local history.
Topic 4 - Special Data Collections
Cyndi's List, religious, regional, look-up exchanges, military, telephone books etc.
Topic 5 - Finding Females In U.K. Databases
Find a spouse or a daughter's husband.
Topic 6 - Parish Records In Australia And Scotland
Researching periods prior to civil registration.
Topic 7 - Recording Your Genealogy
Genealogy software reviewed. Using Legacy Family Tree. Preserving documents.
Topic 8 - Publishing And Sharing Your Information
On CD/DVD; printing charts of family trees; Writing Family History; publishing a book; create a website; standards for sharing information.
I had already started doing my family history on a big ancestry website. This course showed me that what I was doing was right, as well as giving me tips and pointers to other lines of enquiry. So it gave me confidence to continue. Now I know where to look to go further, to record research, contacts, and how to publish what I've got so other family members can see their family history as well. This is the 3rd U3a online course I've done, and have signed up for 2 more. Great value, and just the right level for a reasonably educated person, who wants to learn online.
Kaye