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Subject: Re: How to Do Research on the Internet
From: Bob & Judy Bryant
Date: May 01, 1999
John, I'd like one of the CD's. I'll get the check in the mail.
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Subject: How to Do Research on the Internet
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,
meline) -
> 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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