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Brought to you by friends of the Columbia Family History Center
This DVD features a recording of the event "A Celebration of Family History" on April 29,2010, at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. Includes addresses by author David McCullough and President Henry B. Eyring.
Are you trying to find resources to document an ancestor? Did you know that you can get free online research assistance at familysearch.org (currently beta.familysearch.org)? Follow this tutorial to learn how to access FamilySearch Forums and find the help you need.
Researchers have a new resource, FamilySearch Wiki, where they can access to help them locate resources to learn more about ancestors. This wiki is an online encyclopedia that is being built by the genealogical community made up of both professional genealogists and enthusiasts.
A good researcher is like a detective who talks to everyone and looks in every possible place for clues. Each finding is a puzzle piece that fills in a little more of the picture.
Many thanks to Bill Coup for making our family histories accessible online. Bill is a Veteran with two tours of duty in Vietnam. He served 20 years in the Air Force and retired as a Master Sergeant. Bill retired (2004) from Boynton Beach City Library in Florida after almost 20 years, and began volunteering at the COLASC FHC in 2007.
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As you find success in locating resources, remember to include citations. "When researching your family it is very important that you keep track of every piece of information. This is important both as a means of verifying or "proving" your data and also as a way for you or other researchers to go back to that source when future research leads to information which conflicts with your original assumption. In genealogy research, any statement of fact, whether it is a birth date or an ancestor's surname, must carry its own individual source," according to Kimberly Powell, About.com Guide. See Cite Your Genealogy Sources.