Hi John!

The CD sounds great ! So please put one aside for me.

Jan Davenport
1 Cinnamon Dr
North Little Rock, AR 72120

At 05:26 PM 4/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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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