Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 2)

[jaywit]

Someone mentioned earlier that they wondered if Strathclyde we hoping to get people to join their other courses.

Have you seen what they charge?

http://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/yourfamilyhistory/

[SmallTownGirl]

I've been following the course, but with low expectations, and so far they've been met.  The umms, and ahhs, reading from notes and the Jenny Allergy references just complete the picture 

I've now looked at Cyndi's List for the first time, but can't really make head nor tail of it 

Also, Week 2 made fleeting reference to some FH sheets available from a FH society.  Can anyone point me towards a [free] example of what they look like, please?

Thanks
STG

[groom]

Also, Week 2 made fleeting reference to some FH sheets available from a FH society.  Can anyone point me towards a [free] example of what they look like, please?

Thanks
STG

In a reply, Tahita put this - are the the ones you mean?  reply on 2:13  21st March

We bought the booklets provided to Chris in her intro class from the Aberdeen and NorthEast Scotland Family History Society. Other FHS do much the same type of thing (I know the Glasgow/West of Scotland FHS do). You can buy them from the Aberdeen FHS from their webpage at: http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/publ.php and it is called 'Family Record. H Craig. Workbook to record your family research' and can be found in the Miscellaneous section of the list of publications.

If you happen to be in Scotland (and I know many are not) Aberdeen FHS does go to many Scottish family history fairs to sell publications. I suspect they will be at the upcoming Scottish Family History Society fair in New Lanark on the 23rd of April.

The booklets are really good tools!

[SmallTownGirl]

Well, yes, but they're not free 

[groom]

Well, yes, but they're not free 

Probably are if you do the paying course. 

[SmallTownGirl]

But I am not paying for the course so they're not free 

[Ruskie]

STG, I'm glad it's not just me who gets lost with Cyndi's list. There's so much on there that I don't even know where to start.  How much of it is useful, I don't know. (None of my research is in America).

I first dabbled in it many years ago but didn't find what I was looking for so didn't return until I glanced at it again when it was recommended on this course.

[Isabel H]

Smalltown Girl, just Google "free genealogy forms" and you can take your pick.

[roopat]

I found Cyndi's list very useful for information on the Norfolk (UK) village where most of OH's family lived for some 200 years. This was before Familysearch put Norfolk parish registers online.

I agree there is a lot of stuff but for me it was worth persevering.

Pat