Genealogy and the Internet: The Good, the Bad, and the Improbable

Genealogy for Beginners: A 3-Part Series

The holidays are fast approaching! Want to impress your relatives with your knowledge about your family tree? Join genealogists and historians Diana Ross McCain and Carol R. Whitmer of “Come Home to Connecticut” for a crash course in everything you need to know about starting (or continuing) your research into your family’s history, whether your  roots stretch back to the Mayflower or your family first arrived in the United States in the twentieth century. Attend one, two, or all three workshops!

• November 2 - Start Climbing Your Family Tree: Genealogical Research for Beginners (Main Library)
• November 16 - Genealogy and the Internet: The Good, the Bad, and the Improbable (Barney Library)
• November 23 - Writing Your Family History: What You Need to Know (Main Library)

THIS WEEK: The Internet has been a tremendous blessing for genealogical researchers – but it’s a mixed blessing. There is much Good – for example, digital images of primary sources such as vital, land, probate, military, and church records are now easily accessible online. But there’s much Bad as well, such as unreliable indexes and countless family trees with no documentation. And there’s the Improbable – women reported as bearing a child at the age of 80, three different states given as the birthplace for the same person. Learn how to critically analyze all information, no matter the source, to build a family tree based in documented fact.

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