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Using the Rookie's Guide to Genealogy ResearchPurpose & AudienceWhile serving as director of the Provo Utah South Family History Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), I realized that staff members there needed some basic genealogy training. As a genealogy major at Brigham Young University at the time, I had access to plenty of resources from which to glean the lesson materials, so I began writing. Realizing that many Family History Center directors lacked the training needed to train their staff, I decided the Rookie's Guide should be posted on the Internet to share it with a wider audience. Although the initial lessons were designed to train Family History Center staff members, they have served hundreds of other genealogists since the Guide's creation, including LDS ward family history consultants, Family History Center patrons, and many who have never researched at the Family History Library or at the 3,000 Family History Centers which serve as its branch libraries. When will the Rookie's Guide be Finished?Creating these lessons while raising a family, finishing college, working two jobs, and serving genealogy callings is a much-interrupted process. I write them when I can, and post them as soon as they're written. The lessons initially appear on this site in outline form. Each time I teach a lesson in person, I revise it and re-post it. After several revisions, the lessons will be placed in narrative format. Printing Permission & InstructionsPlease feel free to print out the Rookie's Guide for use at home or at a Family History Center. It was made to be shared. Only two restrictions apply to the printing and copying of the Rookie's Guide. First, don't sell it or incorporate it into a commercial publication. Second, please include the URL (internet address) on any printouts or copies. This way, others will be able to find the Rookie's Guide as it is updated. To print a lesson:
When I finally graduate from Starving Student status, I will purchase Adobe Acrobat, which will be used to convert the Guide's lessons to the Adobe .pdf file format. Readers will then be able to download the Guide's .pdf files and view and print them using the free Acrobat Reader. The resulting print jobs will be nicely formatted, with column layout, table of contents, and index, appearing just as they would in a book generated by WordPerfect. The free Acrobat Reader is available at http://www.adobe.com.
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