Genealogy and the Modern Internet

Session Four: understanding and using report formats that can be created and shared with other family members

Many of those involved in discovering the history of their own families find that one of the biggest thrills, to the point of being a "warm fuzzy," is the ability that they gain in being able to share the history of those families past with the members of that family present. In other words, you can get a kick out of letting those immediate and living family members know who your common ancestors were as well as what they were doing in times long past.

By using a genealogical database, especially one like Family Tree Maker, you can easily generate multi-page reports that make your family history discoveries that much more understandable. There are a multitude of reports, charts, etc. that such a database provides with but just a few keyboard clicks. Such a sample, in this case a descendants report, was generated for the family line of William Reddick, owner of Ottawa's Reddick Mansion. This comprehensive report can be downloaded and viewed by visiting http://reddickmansion.org/genealogy2.html

Students will be guided through the necessary steps in creating some of the various charts and reports but ones based upon their own research findings during the first three sessions of this course. Time will be allotted to the students of this course so that they may generate a "final project report" that can be left with the LSCGG staff for evaluation purposes.

Students are asked to fill-out and return a Session Four "question sheet." A PDF copy is available here.