Shoreline Family History Center Recording Request

Welcome to the Shoreline Family History Center

Recorded Classes Overviews

1. Intro to DNA:
Christmas season is rapidly approaching when the DNA testing companies offer their DNA test kits at bargain prices. This class will discuss the basics of DNA as it applies to family history. You will learn about what DNA can and cannot do to assist you in discovering and understanding your ancestors. The class will discuss the types of DNA tests that are offered by the testing companies, and what each type of test will do. This will allow you to select the company and test which best fits your family history goals.

2. Family Search Basics 
Did you make a New Year’s resolution to begin to do family history? Have you not been on FamilySearch for years? Have you been confused by all of the changes to FamilySearch? This class will give you all of the basics on how to use FamilySearch.org to find and document your ancestors.

3. Understanding and Using your test results
You have now received your DNA test results. But what do they mean and how can you use them? This class will discuss what your results mean and the tools that are available to assist you in using your test results to identify your DNA relatives.

4. Getting the most out of the Census. If available, censuses are one of the first sources that you should consult when trying to identify ancestors. But they are also one of the most underutilized sources. This class will discuss how to mine the overlooked detail in the census can that you can use to focus and document your research.

5. Organizing and Preserving Family History Photos, Do you have a box of family photos languishing in some dark corner of a closest? This class will discuss how to organize your photos, and how to preserve your photos, both physically and electronically.

6> Genealogy Software
Many genealogists, even those using free or subscription-based web programs (e.g., FamilySearch or Ancestry), find it useful to have stand-alone programs to keep their family history information. This class will discuss genealogy software that you can use to keep your family history information outside of the web-based genealogy programs. It will discuss programs that can be used on computers and mobile devices using various operating software - Microsoft Windows (PC’s), Apple MacOS (Mac’s) Linux, and Android and Apple iOS – many of which interface with the web-based programs.

Recorded Classes Overviews

6.  Research plans are one of the best ways to do your family history research. A research plan will allow you to avoid wasting research time when trying to find your ancestors. This class will teach you how to create a research plan and then how to use that plan for efficient family research

7. Breaking Through Brick Walls. All of us have run into problems that prevent identification of ancestors. While many of these “brick walls” are very difficult to break through, others can be solved by intelligent use of tools and sources available to us. This class will discuss approaches and tools that you can use to try to break through your brick walls.

8. Genealogy Software
Many genealogists, even those using free or subscription-based web programs (e.g., FamilySearch or Ancestry), find it useful to have stand-alone programs to keep their family history information. This class will discuss genealogy software that you can use to keep your family history information outside of the web-based genealogy programs. It will discuss programs that can be used on computers and mobile devices using various operating software - Microsoft Windows (PC’s), Apple MacOS (Mac’s) Linux, and Android and Apple iOS – many of which interface with the web-based programs.

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Introduction to DNA November 2020
FamilySearch – The Basics 2021
Understanding and Using your DNA Test Results 2021
Getting the most out of the Census 2/3/2021
Organizing and Preserving Family History Photos 2/20/2021
Creating a research Plan 3/13/2021
Breaking Through Brick Walls 4/10/2021
Geneaolgy Software 4/24/2021

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