This is the second class in the online Finding Your Family genealogy course. It is a series of six remote classes that we, Daughters of Jacob Genealogy, are teaching to help you begin or expand your efforts to discover your family history. The classes are sponsored by the East Valley JCC (EVJCC) in Chandler, Arizona. Anyone anywhere is invited to participate. The focus will be on searching out one’s Jewish ancestry.
Registration Information: Registration is through the EVJCC at https://eastvalleyjcc.regfox.com/finding-your-family. Registration is for the entire six-class course and costs $60, payable to the EVJCC.
If you missed the first class and have a little bit of experience with working on your online family tree, you are still welcome to register. We would love to have you join us! We hold open office hours one hour prior to each session to provide one-on-one help to participants.
Session #2: Session #2 will focus on finding and attaching supporting documentation to the information you entered into your family tree during Session #1. Of course, this process often leads to finding new information, for every day new records are made available online. You will also begin a research log to keep track of what you have searched. If you have entered family trees onto multiple platforms, this session will be a time to explore the different resources and records that are unique to each platform.
Overall Course Objectives: This series is for beginning and intermediate genealogists who want to make hands-on progress on a family history project of their own choice. The objectives of the overall six-class course are that by the end of series:
You will have your family tree documented in a format that you can preserve and share
You will have explored sources suitable to your project
You will be comfortable with keeping a record of your searches so you can maximize your research time
You will have (hopefully) found rich new information to attach to your family tree.
Overall Session Formats: Each session will provide information on a selected topic, followed by question and answer, and supported individual work time. Chat will be available throughout each session so that instructors and participants can all make comments and ask questions as we go, in addition to the formal question/answer time. Furthermore, if your technology permits, we encourage you to apply the tools that we present to your own project during each presentation. If you are already familiar with a portion of what we present, we encourage you to go ahead and work on your own project at your own speed during that time while you listen, or help someone else out using the chat feature.
We will hold online office hours for individual help in addition to the regular class sessions. Details TBA.
COVID caveat: These classes are held entirely online as long as COVID-19 restrictions are in place.