We try to provide several useful items in everyone's folder, beginning with the schedule for the coming year. Every other week we have a presentation on some facet of genealogy research. The opposite weeks are workshops used for mini-topics, group work, library use and internet research.
You can use the two pedigree charts to help show where the "holes" in your family knowledge exist and give you ideas for future research.
We have a list of suggested websites for you to try. We usually demonstrate how each of them can be used sometime during the year. Some require a free account, others can be used at any time and two are subscription sites.
The beginner checklist is a brief outline of the most efficient way to research. In other words, start with yourself, find ancestors in the census, then work on their birth, marriage and death records, etc.
We have an extensive research library of purchased and donated books. You can use the books during club meetings, or they can be checked out for two weeks at a time. We also have a collections of folders, binders and magazines that will help you learn more about genealogy.
There is a records checklist that suggests all kinds of possible sources for family information.
The final item is a chart that will help you focus on what records to use for specific goals. For example, in looking for a birth date you would first try vital records, church records or bible records. If you aren't successful with those records, then move on to cemeteries, obituaries or census records.
Good Luck!
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