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.

Inspired by the Bicentennial, Lisa Oberg began researching her family history at the age of 12 and she’s especially enamored with her Luxembourg ancestors. Lisa received her Master of Librarianship degree from the University of Washington, where she is the Director and History of Science and Medicine Curator for Special Collections in the UW Libraries. Lisa regularly gives genealogy-related lectures at the Seattle Genealogical Society, across the country virtually, and teaches an online course aimed at library staff serving genealogists through the University of Wisconsin's School of Library and Information Studies.

With her Bachelors in Education, Masters in Distance Education, and participation in numerous prestigious genealogical institutes, Cecellia Rogers brings a lot of wisdom to every SGS program and class she facilitates. Lucky for SGS, she's been a member since 2017, has served as Director of Volunteers and currently serves as Education Director. Ceil manages the SGS Zoom and Vimeo accounts, sets up virtual and hybrid meetings, and hosts many of them: Brags & Bricks, Tech Tuesdays, Second Saturdays, to name a few. She finds diverse, relevant speakers for SGS programs and develops classes for all levels of researchers. Share your ideas with her and volunteer to help implement them!