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<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=4><B>Genealogy Today: Right time,
place for research </B></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>Thursday, January 8,
2004 <BR><B>CONNIE LENZEN, for The Columbian </B></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>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.
<P> 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.
<P> 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.
<P> A site that has real potential for genealogists is
"The Internet Public Library," online at www.ipl.org.
<P> 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?
<P> 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.
<P> 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.
<P> 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.
<P> 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/.
<P> 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@yahoo.com. </FONT>
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