Monday, August 16, 2010

Online Genealogy Classes Available in Spokane Area


If you live in the Spokane area, I would like to invite you to take one or more of my Online Genealogy Classes, available through the Community Colleges of Spokane's Institute for Extended Learning.

The first class is "Finding Your Ancestors in Online Vital and Cemetery Records" (Course L207) and will explain what vital and cemetery records are, why they are useful to family historians, and where to find them on site and online at both free and subscription websites. This class will be held Tuesday, October 5th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at the CenterPlace campus, 2426 N. Discovery Way, Spokane Valley, Washingon.

The second class will be "Finding Your Ancestors in American Military Records" (Course L204). Is there a veteran in your family tree or a family story that an ancestor served in the Civil or Revolutionary War? This class will teach you how to locate military records from the present to the American colonial period, and will be held Tuesday, October 26th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, also at the CenterPlace campus.

For both classes, it's important to have a working understanding of the Internet as well as an e-mail address. You may register for either course by calling the IEL at (509) 279-6030 or (800) 845-3324; you can also register online by going to the course webpages here (vital/cemetery) or here (military).

2 comments:

Fred said...

Do you have to live in the spokane area?

Miriam Robbins said...

Hi, Fred,

The title "Online Genealogy Classes" may be misleading, as it could be misunderstood to be an online class--meaning it could be taken remotely through the internet. In this case, this is not so. "Online Genealogy" means the class will be using the Internet to find online genealogy resources. Attending this class means attending in person, so it would be convenient to live in the Spokane area!

Thanks for dropping by!