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Saving
the Dead Without Using Computers:
Course Outline
(last updated 13 November, 2005)
Purpose & Use of this Guide
- Using the Rookie's Guide
- Purpose & Audience
- When will the Rookie's Guide be Finished?
- Printing Permissions & Instructions
Unit 1: Gathering and Organizing Family Records
- Providing LDS Ordinances for Family Members
- Information needed for each ordinance
- Getting help researching, recording names, and submitting names
for ordinances
- Recording Information
- Types of forms
- How to fill out forms
- Family Interviews
- Correspondence Types
- Process
- Correspondence Content & Guerilla Tactics
- Equipment for Oral Interviews
- Organizing Your Files
- Why do it?
- Components of a Filing System
- How to organize
Unit 2: Searching Elementary Records
- The Family History Library & the Research
Process
- Introduction to the Family History Library
- The Research Process
- The Golden Rule of Genealogy
- Family & Locality Histories
- Census
- Non-census Locator Sources: Directories, Tax lists, and Voting Records
(Taught)
- Vital Records
- Cemetery and Funeral Home Records
- Land & Probate Records
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