New course format

Mr Burns USB Webcam

For the past two years I’ve been teaching a Basic English Research genealogy course with GenClass.  Every time this course runs, part of the preparation involves updating the course materials to incorporate new research sources as they come available and also checking the web links to make sure that they’re all

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Mitchell Library lectures

The Mitchell Library in Glasgow

The Mitchell Library in Glasgow is running a series of family history lectures starting on 14 November and running through into December as part of the Archive Awareness Campaign.

The lecture subjects are:

An introduction to Irish family history
Census substitutes
School archives
Family and estate records
Poor law archives
Archive sources for family history
Church archives

To find

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Online courses in November

There’s a week left to sign up to a GenClass genealogy course in November. Each course lasts for 4 weeks and costs US$34.50
The courses are:
Adoption investigative course
This class provides not only instructions of how to search, but addresses the emotional aspects that affect such a deeply personal and poignant endeavor.
Australian and New Zealand genealogy
How to

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