Subject: How to Do Research on the Internet From: Galinahist Date: April 29, 1999 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 ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |