Join Annette Burke Lyttle, MA in her course during SLIG Fall Virtual 2024.
The goal of this course is to help students understand the genealogical research process in order to be able to research efficiently and effectively and to produce reliable answers to research questions. Students choose a research project of their own to work on throughout the course, and weekly homework assignments allow students to immediately practice skills they are learning. Every step of the research process is covered: formulating a useful research question, assembling and analyzing starting point information, researching the locality of the target ancestor, constructing a research plan, understanding source citations, logging and organizing research, analysis and correlation, and writing up results. The course also includes mind mapping to visualize information, how to know when the question has been answered reliably, and what to do if the research plan doesn’t provide an answer. A session on AI tools for genealogy provides a glimpse into the future. Two workshops and the opportunity for one-on-one consultations with instructors provide students with the chance to engage with the faculty and each other about the research process. This is a companion course to Foundations: Methods and Records.
Other Instructors:
- Fiona Brooker
- Amy Larner Giroux, PhD, CG, CGL
- Shannon Green, CG
- Sharon Hoyt, CG
- Nancy A. Peters, CG, CGL
- Ari Wilkins
This course will be held on Thursdays, September 12–November 14, 2024, from 3:00 to 6:30 p.m. MDT.
View the complete course schedule here.
Registration for this course and other Fall Virtual 2024 courses opens at 12:00 pm MDT on Saturday, May 18, 2024.
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