Twin Falls Idaho FamilySearch Center

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Classes for Spring 2013 at the Twin Falls Family History Center

Date           Time        Class                                                                         Instructor

Sat Feb 16   10:30 AM      Photos and How to Identify Them                            Mary Edgar Sat Feb 16    11:30 AM      Research from Newspapers                                    John Cox Sat Feb 16    12:30 PM     Family Tree - FamilySearch Adding Sources             Marti Pike Sat Feb 16     1:30 PM     Step by Step Family History                                     Carl Edgar Tue Feb 19    4:00 PM     Roots Magic – How to get Started                              Karen Prestwich Thu Feb 21    9:30 AM     Family Tree - Editing &amp; Correcting Information             Mary Edgar Tue Feb 26    4:00 PM     Family Tree – Training                                               Karen Prestwich Tue Feb 26    7:00 PM     Staff Meeting                                                            John Cox Thu Feb 28    9:30 AM     Roots Web - Researching the records                        Carl Edgar

Tue Mar 5     4:00 PM     Roots Magic – What is New                                       Karen Prestwich Thu Mar 7      9:30 AM     Research Logs – What do you want them to do? Carl Edgar Tue Mar 12   4:00 PM     Ancestry.com                                                           Karen Prestwich Thu Mar 14    9:30 AM     Family Tree - Making Family Ordinance Requests        Carl Edgar Sat Mar 16    10:30 AM   Time Lines and Maps                                                  Mary Edgar Sat Mar 16    11:30 AM   Research in New Hampshire                                        David Putnam Sat Mar 16    12:30 PM   Family Tree - FamilySearch                                          Marti Pike Sat Mar 16    1:30 PM     How to Organize records on one Family Line                 David Putnam Tue Mar 19    4:00 PM     Family Tree – Training                                                  Karen Prestwich Thur Mar 21   9:30 AM    Ancestry.com – How I use it. John Cox Tue Mar 26   4:00 PM    Descendancy Research                                                Karen Prestwich Tue Mar 26    7:00 PM    Staff Meeting                                                                John Cox Thur Mar 28   9:30 AM    On line Cemetery Records – Billion Graves &amp; Findagrave Carl Edgar

Tue Apr 2      4:00 PM    Roots Magic – Sourcing                                               Karen Prestwich Thu Apr 4       9:30 AM    Digitalizing Records – Why and How to do it? Carl Edgar Tue Apr 9      4:00 PM    Finding Maiden Names                                                Karen Prestwich Thu Apr 11     9:30 AM    Documentation - Importance and Quality                       Mary Edgar Tue Apr 16     4:00 PM    Family Tree Training                                                    Karen Prestwich Thu Apr 18     9:30 AM    Google Searches and other Web sites                         Carl Edgar Sat Apr 20    10:30 AM    Family History Center – Premium Sites                      Mary Edgar Sat Apr 20    11:30 AM    Family Tree from FamilySearch                                 Marti Pike Sat Apr 20    12:30 PM    Pennsylvania Records - How to search them              David Putnam Sat Apr 20     1:30 PM    Organization and Research Logs                                Carl Edgar Tue Apr 23     4:00 PM    Cemetery Research                                                  Karen Prestwich Tue Apr 23     7:00 PM    Staff Meeting                                                            John Cox Thu Apr 25     9:30 AM    FamilySearch How to Search effectively                     Carl Edgar Tue Apr 30     4:00 PM    Storing Files Online                                                  Kelli Watts

Thu May 2     9:30 AM    Family Tree - FamilySearch Correcting                     Carl Edgar Tue May 7      4:00 PM    Roots Magic – Create a Website                             Karen Prestwich Thu May 9      9:30 AM    Using Roots Magic                                                 Carl Edgar Tue May 14    4:00 PM    Writing your own Personal History                           Karen Prestwich Thu May 16    9:30 AM    Quick Start to Family History                                  Carl Edgar Sat May 18    10:30 AM   Research - Looking at old data in a new way            Mary Edgar Sat May 18    11:30 AM   Records for Veterans from the Colonial Wars           David Putnam Sat May 18    12:30 PM   Searching Ancestry.com                                       Carl Edgar Sat May 18    1:30 PM     Family Tree from FamilySearch                            Marti Pike Tue May 21    4:00 PM    Family Tree – Training                                          Karen Prestwich Thu May 23    9:30 AM    Descendancy Research                                       Mary Edgar Tue May 28    4:00 PM    Organizing your Files – Digital and Paper               Karen Prestwich

Collections

 * Family History Library Catalog: This center has the ability to order any of the films and fiche available through the Family History Library Catalog.
 * The Twin Falls Family History Center has a book collection of over 3,000 books. They have a computer printout, by book title, of books in their collection.
 * The center also has a collection of about 3,600 microfilms on indefinite loan, and have a country, and, a state-by-state listing of them. They also have a large microfiche collection.
 * Local residents have some family history books that are not available at the Family History Center. For example, one volunteer has a copy of The Genealogy of the Page Family of Virginia


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Databases and Software

 * FHC Portal: This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. (Note to FHC: Not all FHCs have access to this portal. If you do not, you will want to remove this entire bullet. If you do have access to it, just remove this text in italics.)

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