Lori Bessler, Reference Librarian and Outreach Coordinator for the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Archives, will lead three sessions designed to provide information on locating and organizing family history as well as research strategies for online research. Everyone from the novice to the advanced genealogist will find these programs useful!
This class will be held in Room E281 of the UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library building. Maps of the campus and information about parking are available on the Web at http://www.uwm.edu/map/.
There is a fee of $25 for members of the Wisconsin Historical Society or the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society or $30 for non-members. Attendance for this class is capped at 40. Refreshments will be provided.
Oh Darned! Where Did I Put Uncle George? Organizing and Compiling Your Research Doing genealogy requires the constant collecting, sifting and winnowing of minute pieces of information. Organizing this mountain of facts and documents will make it easier to plan research trips, find information when you need it and relate facts to each other in the proof of ancestry. This session will focus on systems designed to simplify your work as a genealogist. This session will start by laying a foundation using manual paper based systems and will apply this foundation to choosing genealogy software. The instructor will not make recommendations for specifics software packages.
Wisconsin Historical Society Collections & Services The Wisconsin Historical Society has one of the top 5 genealogical collections in the country. There are over 4 million items in the Library Archives and thousands more at the Area Research Centers across the state. This session will show you how to locate those collections using the online catalogs, the Society website and the websites of the various ARC’s. It will also highlight services provided by the staff at the Library Archives and Area Research Centers.
It’s All Online! Or Is It? There is so much online now for the genealogist! How do you determine what is factual and what is fluff? What is free or fee? This session will provide information about content on the web, organizing your online research, citing sources and how to keep up with all of the new information found on the Internet. Ancestry.com and many free websites will be highlighted.
For more information, visit www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/classes or phone Lori Bessler at 608-264-6519 or Michael Doylen at 414-229-6980.