This class includes four weekly sessions online with a fifth, optional session in person at the SGS library. The class covers how to successfully conduct, organize, and record research for your genealogy. How to begin? How to evaluate evidence? What are the best sources? Where are the records--online and off? What can DNA tell us?

Start your journey on a foundation of good habits and best practices. Participation will help you develop great genealogy skills. The course finishes with a list of favorite sources for additional learning and an optional meet-up with a personal research session at the SGS library.

Weeks 1-4 will meet virtually and consist of lecture, discussion, and workshop for one-and-a-half-hours each session.

Week 5 (optional) includes a library tour and one-on-one research assistance.

Limit of 20 people per class.

Class fee $80 (SGS members $60)

Instructors

Kathy Weber speaks, teaches, and writes regularly for global genealogy audiences. She has a special interest in effectively using DNA data to discover unknown family members. She serves as an administrator of the DNA project of the Irish clan of her 3rd great grandmother of County Monaghan. She designed this Beginning Genealogy course curriculum in response to her prior experience as a student. She plans to publish a book about the arrival stories of her eight great grandparents to Washington pre-1910.