Using your computer to record your Family Tree for posterity
- Do you wish you had taken more notice when your parents and grandparents told you stories about their families?
- Do you worry about what will happen to the information that you hold on your family history, both in your head and on paper, after you have passed on?
- Would you like to have a permanent way of recording your family tree so that it will outlast you and be easily accessible for your children, grandchildren and wider family?
- Would you like to find out more about how your ancestors lived and maybe make connections with distant cousins?
- Do you have photos and other documents (birth certificates, death certificates, etc.) which you would like to include in your family tree?
There are two main parts to this course. The first is that you will be shown how to use a public online system to record your information and your photos. Secondly, you will be shown how to search online resources that may provide further details about your wider family. This can be quite exciting as people find new pieces of the “jigsaw puzzle” that is their family tree. All this and more will be covered in the four weeks of the course.
All participants will be given a 40-page manual to keep for reference as they continue with their genealogy after the course finishes.
Basic skills are all that is needed to take this course. Before each course starts, participants are given instructions to create an online account with https://familysearch.org and if you can achieve this, you can be confident that you will have the necessary skills to take part.