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[Diane]

      Genealogy Today: Right time, place for research 

      Thursday, January 8, 2004 
      CONNIE LENZEN, for The Columbian 

      Matt, my 12-year-old grandson, is at the age where he is keenly aware that there is a time and a place for everything. He tells me that the mall is not the place where you want your friends to see you with your younger sisters. 

          In genealogy, there is a time and a place for everything, too. The right time and place to find out everything about our ancestors was the time when they lived. Unfortunately, we cannot go back there. 

          The Internet is a place where we can find information about the times and places where our ancestors lived. Access to the Internet is as close as our home computer or local library. 

          A site that has real potential for genealogists is "The Internet Public Library," online at www.ipl.org. 

          The IPL began in 1995 during a graduate seminar in the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan. The idea sprang from the fact that librarians in libraries answer questions -- all sorts of questions. So, how about building an Internet library that answers many of these questions and allows people to ask a librarian a question? 

          We know that a librarian probably cannot tell us the name of Grandpa Schmidt's mother. That's for us to ferret out. So, what can you find on the IPL? Well, you can find the genealogies of all of the U.S. presidents. You can find out when any date was in any year. You can find wonderful links to historical events during the times when your ancestors lived. 

          I do a lot of my research on the Internet. That's part of the "new" genealogy, a part of the times in which we live. Another part of the "new" is finding a place where we can take classes that teach us research sources and strategy. 

          The Clark County Genealogical Society is sponsoring its Beginning Genealogy classes through Clark College Continuing Education Center. These include how to organize and chart information, the use of computers, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints records in family research, census records and courthouse records. The classes begin Saturday, Jan. 24. Call 992-2939. 

          The CCGS is sponsoring a series of intermediate miniclasses. They are held at the society's library at 717 Grand Blvd., on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. The first class will be Jan. 20. Contact the Society at 750-5688 for the list of classes and the fee. Information is also available on the Web at www.ccgs-wa.org/. 

       Connie Lenzen can be reached in care of The Columbian, P.O. Box 180, Vancouver, WA 98666. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a personal reply. Or e-mail her at gencolumn at yahoo.com. 

       
      

       
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