I volunteered in March to participate on the panel of the ESM Quicklesson Study Group sponsored by DearMyrtle. This group worked through and discussed the teachings of Elizabeth Shown Mills and her writings in her book Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Third Edition. This group met from March to September and had the participation from outstanding genealogists from around the globe to help old and new genealogist brush up on the importance and the techniques of citations in genealogical research.
The goal I had for this class was to learn how to properly document my research so that in the future people will understand that proper historical research was used in coming to the conclusions and proofs used in my family research. I learned quite a lot about genealogy and each week it was like writing a research paper dealing with a portion of my family tree. (Yes, I thought it was fun)
With the homework complete - I need to start a new goal in my genealogical studies and I think for the next few months I will focus on converting my family trees from FamilyTreeMaker to RootsMagic. I have never enjoyed the FamilyTreemaker software and find RootsMagic easier to use between both Mac and PC operating systems. Hopefully I will have this redo completed prior to my next test in January the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy.
