About 3 years ago, when I and others were creating The USGenWeb Project, I 
put together a set of lessons entitled:

How to Do Research on the Internet:

These lessons were subsequently offered by subscription and I used them as a 
basis for a couple of college course I taught.

I have recently reworked the lessons and updated the links, and am offering 
the complete 12 lesson set on CD-ROM for $12.00.  This new edition is 
designed for you to use on your computer and to work at your own pace, or 
reference the parts that are important to your current research needs.

Here's an overview of the lessons:

LESSON 1: Getting Started:  The Family Group Sheet -  Personal Interviews  -  
   Interview Pointers - Family Traditions  -  Keeping Your Records - The 
Notebook          The File

     Starting Points - Identify What You Know - Decide What You Want to Learn 
         Select a Record to Search  - Obtain and Search the Record - 
Evaluate, Copy and Use The Record

     Family Records - Bible Records - Photographs -  Momentos  -  Awards and 
Citations -  Yearbooks - Church and other Organization Affiliations - family 
migrations in the past 50 - 100 years.

     Citing your Work


LESSON 2: Local Resources:  Visit the local public library, college library 
and possibly the state archives.  Learn the organization of the library, its 
services, and its access or retrieval tools.  Identify and locate resources 
in the syllabus for finding sought after information:  reference works, 
journals, newspapers and any specialized guides, etc.

LESSON 3: Remote Access to Archives and Libraries:  efficient searching using 
Catalogs via the Web and Telnet, and obtaining materials through Inter 
Library Loan.  Select and use appropriate information retrieval tools to 
identify and obtain potentially useful documents, books, articles and other 
information sources.  

LESSON 4:Select and use appropriate information retrieval tools to identify 
and obtain potentially useful documents, books, articles or other information 
sources.  Lesson 4 focuses on learning how to identify, find and obtain 
appropriate information sources based on what you have learned.  You  will 
learn to interpret bibliographic citations, use compiled works, and how to 
locate and retrieve desired items.     

LESSON 5: The Web Pathfinder: Distilling Knowledge From a Sea of Information: 
 Armed with Web indexes and hierarchial lists -- the FINDING TOOLS for the 
INTERNET -- this lesson will help you meet and confront the complex 
information challenge of using the Internet for genealogy and history 
research.  Its purpose is to help you improve your performance in using the 
Web to develop a Web search plan or discovery map of resources to be 
accessed, as well as, potential offline resources.

LESSON 6: Digital Bibliographies:  Generating and Formatting Bibliographic 
Citations: The purpose of this lesson is to cover the finer points of 
creating a digital bibliography of sources consulted which provide the 
evidence documenting specific data in your family history.

LESSON 7. Information on researching the following 4 types of records via the 
internet:       Cemeteries  - Census Records  - Church Records -  Other 
Organizations

LESSON 8. Information on researching the following 4 types of records via the 
internet:      Court Records  - Vital Records  - Voting Records - Obituaries

LESSON 9. Information on researching the following 4 types of records via the 
internet:     Emigration and Immigration  -    Migration Patterns  - Social 
Forces      War Records

LESSON 10. Information on researching the following 4 types of records via 
the internet:     Family Histories -  Genealogies - Manuscripts - GEDCOM Files

LESSON 11. Information on researching the following 3 types of records via 
the internet:     History (County, Territorial, State, US, Timeline)   -   
Biography  -    Newspaper Accounts   

LESSON 12. Information on researching the following 4 types of records via 
the internet:     Land - Property -  Maps  - Gazeteers

If you're interested in a copy of this CD-ROM, drop me a note and I will put 
one back for you.

John Rigdon
Eastern Digital Resources
PO Box 1451
Clearwater, SC  29822-1451
(803) 593-0870

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