These classes are  taught online.  You don’t need anything but your home computer to take these courses

WRITING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY

If you want to learn how to write an in depth family history or a series of interesting family memoirs of yourself, Parents, Grandparents or other family members than this class and book is for you!  Free book on Writing Your Family History is included with the class.

TOPICS INCLUDE

1. Creating your story timeline
2. Creating a sense of place and time
3. Identifying  family photographs
4. Developing your family stories
5. Writing styles

This class is taught by Terry Houghland. Terry holds an M. A in History and has been involved in Historical Society Management for 14 years.  He is owner of vanished.com a Internet Genealogy site.  He has taught this course at Scottsdale and Mesa Community college since 1990

FALL SCHEDULE

Class one   Six Mondays starting Sept. 12 and ending  Oct.. 17  from 2:30 to 3:30pm

Class two   Six  Tuesday’s starting Sept. 13 and ending  Oct. 18  from 8:00 to 9:00pm

Class 3   Six Friday’s  starting Sept. 16 and ending  Oct. 21  from 6:30 to7:30pm

WRITING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY (WATCH THIS SHORT  DESCRIPTIVEVIDEO)

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COST OF CLASS AND BOOK: $25.95

DIFFICULT GENEALOGY PROBLEM

• This 4 week class begins by an analysis of each student’s present level of research. Students send this information to the teacher prior to the start of class. This allows the teacher to analyze the research and be able to instruct the student on research sources to look at during the course.
• THE COURSE TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:
  
• Why a well thought out Genealogy research plan helps you find difficult ancestors.
• Single document analysis.
  
• Using less known databases
• Finding missing ancestors by using multi document analysis techniques.
• How to use advanced methods of photo analysis to find an ancestor.
• Advanced Internet Genealogy research methods
• Understanding record depositories.
• Using advanced record finding techniques on the Internet.
  
• At the end of the class each student will receive an evaluation of what resources they should use for their specific project

COST OF CLASS $29

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Instructor

Terry Houghland has an M.A in Historical Museum Management and has taught this class and other Genealogy classes
at Scottsdale and Mesa Community Colleges since 1990. Terry has been involved in Genealogy since 1970.

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INTRODUCTION  TO  GENEALOGY RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET

This 4 week course is an introduction to doing research on the Internet.  Some topics will include:

• Separating fact from fiction when visiting Genealogy websites.
• The major Genealogy portals and communities
• Understanding the Internet Culture for Genealogy
• Understanding the Internet Blogsphere for Genealogy
•  Facebook and Twitter to find family.

CLASS SCHEDULE  TO BE ANNOUNCED

COST OF CLASS $29

Terry Houghland has an M.A in Historical Museum Management and has taught this class and other Genealogy classes
at Scottsdale and Mesa Community Colleges since 1990. Terry has been involved in Genealogy since 1970and owns vanished.com a Genealogy research website.

INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY

Charlotte Marie Bocage is a full-time professional genealogist with more than four decades of experience.  The 1977 the TV series Roots inspired her to put a name to what she had been doing for so long and to formally continue her genealogical search.  She is the Bocage Family genealogist and historian tracing her paternal family back to 19^th century Louisiana.  The names in her family database were published in two Bocage family history books and one Bloom Family History book.  Her Louisiana Research book is in development.

Professional Affiliations: The Algiers (Louisiana) Historical Society, California African American Genealogical Society, California State Genealogical Alliance, Creole Heritage Center, The Genealogical Speakers Guild,  Le Comite des Archives de la Louisiane, Louisiana Creole Research Association, the National Genealogical Society, Pasadena Area African American Genealogical Society, Southern California Genealogical Society, and the Terrebonne (Parish Louisiana) Genealogical Society.

Lecture Resume:

• California African American Genealogical Society, Los Angeles, CA
• Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society National Annual Conference, Washington D.C.,

This is an introductory course that  will be part of  an in depth  course of study on doing African American Genealogy.  Students will receive free access to our new “former slave” database.:
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1. Introduction
   1. What do I need to prove?
   2. Who keeps the records?
2. My Oral History
3. Why Genealogy?
4. Start with you
   1. Pedigree chart
   2. Family Group sheets
      1. Name
         1. Variations
         2. Nicknames
      2. Dates
      3. Places
5. The details you need to find
   1. Who – Names of individuals
   2. What did they do?  Born, baptised, married, or died.
   3. Where – Where did they accomplish what they did?
   4. When did they accomplish what they did?
   5. How are they related to you?
6. Home Search
   1. Find family bibles; birth, marriage, and death certificates; military records; diaries; letters; newspaper clippings; photographs, scrapbooks and baby books.

YOU DO NOT NEED ANY SPECIAL EQUIPMENT.  YOU WILL BE SENT AN E MAIL WITH A LINK TO THE CLASSROOM YOU CLICK ON THE LINK AND YOU ARE IN THE CLASS.

to be announced

COST OF CLASS $19