Genealogy 101: Finding your roots to find your skill set
Helping others discover their familial roots had exposed an issue in my own family that I realized I needed to address: Finding my own roots.
Genealogy 101: So you’re a genealogy librarian. Now what?
I used to feel frustrated when assisting patrons with their genealogical queries, partly because I lacked adequate training. But this subject can be mastered with formal and informal training.
Genealogy 101: Knowing your genealogy patron
Before I became a genealogy librarian, I was never really into tracing lines of ancestral descent or into knowing my family tree. Discovering family history seemed so abstract.