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FLORENCE-Join us for our Generations: Basic Genealogy Seminar and learn the skills you’ll need to dive in and start researching your family’s genealogy. American or European, black, white or Native American, we all want to know more about our family and where we come from. Our seminar assumes you’ve done little or no genealogy research and want to learn how to get started.
FLORENCE-Join us for our Generations: Basic Genealogy Seminar and learn the skills you’ll need to dive in and start researching your family’s genealogy. American or European, black, white or Native American, we all want to know more about our family and where we come from. Our seminar assumes you’ve done little or no genealogy research and want to learn how to get started.Generations: Basic Genealogy Seminar will be Saturday, July 25 from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. Admission to this class is free and registration is required. To register for this seminar, call 256-764-6564, ext. 30.Students in our all-day seminar will first learn how to get started and organized, because you don’t want to just jump in there and try to work blind. Plus there are a few basic research rules you need to know in order to insure your research is accurate and well-documented.
Then we will examine each of the five basic types of genealogy records: census records; land records; military records; probate (courthouse records); vital records (births, deaths and marriages); and where to obtain/how to use each of these types of records. Detailed handouts for each session will be provided.
Instructors will be FLPL’s genealogist/local historian Lee Freeman, and Natchez Trace Genealogical Society president Brian Newton and vice president Kitty Cox. All three bring several decades’ worth of experience in genealogy research to the table.
By the end of the seminar students should be able to begin researching their family genealogy.
