Thursday, January 24, 2008

Tech Challenge: Online Genealogy

We held our first session about using Ancestry.com and FirstSearch this week. We should have waited. There were several technical problems logging all 8 computers onto our licensed Ancestry site, so we really couldn't do what we had hoped. Instead, we worked with folk on FirstSearch, the LDS free website, and did some demonstrations on Ancestry.

The good news is that we have fixed the problems. Our next class should work out better. We've offered a few spots in the next class to folks attending the first class, since it was a bit of a bust, but there are several registration slots still open. We will begin taking registrations on Monday, Jan. 28 at 662-3133. The class itself will be held Tuesday, Feb. 5 from 6 to 7:30.

Yes, even librarians are not infallible ;-)
kc

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