New to genealogy and want to set up an organization system? Researching for years and overwhelmed with your current system? Have a good system but need some tweaks to improve its effectiveness?

 

This course will address the challenge of organizing the large quantity of information we accumulate as we research. With targeted and thoughtful presentations and exercises, this course will help participants create a system of organization or adapt their current system to meet their specific research needs.

 

Successful organization starts with organizing ourselves. Over the course of four sessions we will look at why and how we research, building the foundation of an effective personal organizational system. Questions about who, what, where, and when we research clarify how best to apply our time, energy, and resources. This enables us to create and maintain a system of organization that best supports our needs as we engage in genealogical research.

Four weekly, two-hour, online class sessions
Session 1: Organizing Our Self – Our thoughts, actions, time, and space
Session 2: Organizing Our System – Paper systems and digital systems
Session 3: Organizing Our Workflow – Research, records, and resources
Session 4: Pulling It All Together – Developing a tailored organization system

The Fiske Genealogical Library is sponsoring "A Demographic Study of Siroke, Slovakia in the 1800s" with Mike Kocsik. Censuses and Church records are great sources to find ancestors, but taken as a whole, these documents can provide a wealth of statistical information about a population. I have collected such data for one of my ancestral hometowns, Siroke in Eastern Slovakia, to build a picture of the daily life my great-grandfather knew as a boy before he came to America: occupations, family sizes, at what age people married, how long they lived and causes of death, etc. Lacking any direct stories about my older ancestors, this is a good way to present a picture of their world. Although it is one small farming town in a small country, the picture of peasant life is probably similar to towns all across Europe just before the Industrial Revolution.

 

For links to join the meeting and get class notes, click here: https://fiskelibrary.org/

New to genealogy and want to set up an organization system? Researching for years and overwhelmed with your current system? Have a good system but need some tweaks to improve its effectiveness?

 

This course will address the challenge of organizing the large quantity of information we accumulate as we research. With targeted and thoughtful presentations and exercises, this course will help participants create a system of organization or adapt their current system to meet their specific research needs.

 

Successful organization starts with organizing ourselves. Over the course of four sessions we will look at why and how we research, building the foundation of an effective personal organizational system. Questions about who, what, where, and when we research clarify how best to apply our time, energy, and resources. This enables us to create and maintain a system of organization that best supports our needs as we engage in genealogical research.

Four weekly, two-hour, online class sessions
Session 1: Organizing Our Self – Our thoughts, actions, time, and space
Session 2: Organizing Our System – Paper systems and digital systems
Session 3: Organizing Our Workflow – Research, records, and resources
Session 4: Pulling It All Together – Developing a tailored organization system

New to genealogy and want to set up an organization system? Researching for years and overwhelmed with your current system? Have a good system but need some tweaks to improve its effectiveness?

 

This course will address the challenge of organizing the large quantity of information we accumulate as we research. With targeted and thoughtful presentations and exercises, this course will help participants create a system of organization or adapt their current system to meet their specific research needs.

 

Successful organization starts with organizing ourselves. Over the course of four sessions we will look at why and how we research, building the foundation of an effective personal organizational system. Questions about who, what, where, and when we research clarify how best to apply our time, energy, and resources. This enables us to create and maintain a system of organization that best supports our needs as we engage in genealogical research.

Four weekly, two-hour, online class sessions
Session 1: Organizing Our Self – Our thoughts, actions, time, and space
Session 2: Organizing Our System – Paper systems and digital systems
Session 3: Organizing Our Workflow – Research, records, and resources
Session 4: Pulling It All Together – Developing a tailored organization system

 

For links to join the meeting and get class notes, click here: https://fiskelibrary.org/

Want to discover your Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors?

 

Many people believe that researching Irish ancestors is impossible because of the destruction of the Public Record Office in 1922. While many records were destroyed, others survived and large collections have come online in recent years.

 

Join Fintan Mullan and Gillian Hunt from the Ulster Historical Foundation during their annual United States lecture tour to learn how to get the most out of Irish resources and records, gain strategies for breaking down brick walls, and grasp important historical context that may help fill in gaps in your research.

 

Whether you are just beginning your Irish research or have been at it for years, you won’t want to miss these workshops!

 

Contact details with additional information can be found at: https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com/portfolio/lecture-tour-2025

 

 

For links to join the meeting and get class notes, click here: https://fiskelibrary.org/