Friday, January 2, 2009
Barbara Renick's Ancestry.com Tutorials
I received my issue of UpFront, the NGS monthly email newsletter, today, and noted the mention of two new Searching at Ancestry.com tutorials by Barbara Renick, a noted Southern California genealogist and conference/seminar lecturer.
The two tutorials are located at http://www.zroots.com/tutorials1.htm. They run 11 and 13 minutes respectively, and are very well done - a PowerPoint slides with Barbara's voiceover, and notes on the right side of the screen. The screen on the Part 1 tutorial is larger and easier to read than the screen on the Part 2 tutorial. However, you can click on the "Full Screen" icon next to the run time in the lower right hand corner to see the full screen with better resolution.
Barbara also has a nice set of genealogy links on her Links page - http://www.zroots.com/links.htm. There are lecture notes on her Notes page - http://www.zroots.com/notes.htm (this is where the Ancestry tutorials are "hiding" - under the NGS Lecture Notes button).
There are several other genealogy lecturers and societies that are providing online tutorials in this format. I appreciate them, and I hope you do too!
If you know of other video tutorials like this other than on Ancestry.com, Roots Television or New England Ancestors, please let me know in Comments.
The two tutorials are located at http://www.zroots.com/tutorials1.htm. They run 11 and 13 minutes respectively, and are very well done - a PowerPoint slides with Barbara's voiceover, and notes on the right side of the screen. The screen on the Part 1 tutorial is larger and easier to read than the screen on the Part 2 tutorial. However, you can click on the "Full Screen" icon next to the run time in the lower right hand corner to see the full screen with better resolution.
Barbara also has a nice set of genealogy links on her Links page - http://www.zroots.com/links.htm. There are lecture notes on her Notes page - http://www.zroots.com/notes.htm (this is where the Ancestry tutorials are "hiding" - under the NGS Lecture Notes button).
There are several other genealogy lecturers and societies that are providing online tutorials in this format. I appreciate them, and I hope you do too!
If you know of other video tutorials like this other than on Ancestry.com, Roots Television or New England Ancestors, please let me know in Comments.
Labels: Ancestry.com, genealogy education, Genealogy Video
