Great! Thanks, MJ. You seem to have a good idea about employing your expertises into a program for beginners. Getting them started properly is the best way. I will follow up with the Carrboro Rec folks to get more details and hopefully a timeline for presentations. - Richard mj hall wrote: > I am putting together one for beginners for the DA winter series and would > be willing to offer one night. I am not a geneaology expert but have > expertise in resources, project management, and research - and have put lots > of stories together. > > MJ Hall > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Melanie Crain > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NCDOGS] who wants to help with a genealogy workshop? > > Richard, > I would be happy to do a workshop on DNA & genealogy if you don't get any > better offers. > > Melanie Crain > > On Oct 16, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Richard Ellington wrote: > >> I have received a request from the Carrboro Recreation & Parks >> department to propose that D-OGS give a short series of lecture-style >> genealogy workshops (3-5 sessions total) this Winter and/or Spring. >> These sessions could be very general in nature. These are the same >> folks that provided us with the Carrboro Century Center facility for >> our Olde Orange Family History Day event. >> >> Suggestions for sessions might include: >> - Beginning genealogy - start with yourself >> - Readily Available Public Records to Search - Census, Land, Marriage >> & Death, etc. >> - DNA & genealogy - what can it do for you? >> - Genealogy software >> - Online Genealogy - using the Web to search >> >> I would be willing to do a session or two; would anyone else volunteer >> to hold a session or two? If so, let me know what your anticipated >> topic would be. We will probably have a good bit of flexibility in >> holding these sessions. If materials are needed (handouts, etc.), I'm >> sure that the Rec & Parks folks would provide them. >> >> >> -- Richard >> >> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= >> >> Richard K. Ellington >> ITS Data Centers Manager >> Information Technology Services >> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill >> 440 W. Franklin St., CB 1150 >> Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1150 >> Control Center - http://control-center.unc.edu >> >> 919-698-8591 (voice) >> 919-843-9153 (fax) >> [email protected] >> >> >> "We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken >> or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job". >> >> -Winston Churchill >> >> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= >> ************************* >> Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Please >> post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http:// >> www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDOGS- >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Please post all > queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Richard K. Ellington ITS Data Centers Manager Information Technology Services University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 440 W. Franklin St., CB 1150 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1150 Control Center - http://control-center.unc.edu 919-698-8591 (voice) 919-843-9153 (fax) [email protected] "We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job". -Winston Churchill =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=