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