Genealogy & Computers - A Natural !
This genealogy program was presented Monday, October 19th, at 6:00 PM, in the Lenawee County Library meeting room.
The program was presented by Lenawee County librarian, Phyllis Rickard . Phyllis is an experienced genealogist, and brings the special research skills of a librarian to the hobby. Tracing ancestors using public computer data bases and using special programs which organize the data and build reports are all part of a days work. Phyllis has been doing genealogy before the personal computer became sophisticated enough to revolutionize the field. She knows how to do old the fashion detective work that is the first requirement to be able to carry out successful searches. Phyllis always presents a good program and we are very fortunate that she was able to agree to share her knowledge with the club.
Phyllis did a very thorough job preparing for the program, including a half hour orientation to genealogical research, a PowerPoint presentation, and a handout giving the URLs of a large number of research sites and data bases. With a little help from Harry Potter, we have converted this material into formats that will display on the web and you can see them all by following the above links (you may need to use the latest Internet Explorer for this to display correctly--it doesn't work in Firefox.)