Content
Welcome
1m 8s
Introduction
6m 14s
Ask About Vertical Files
9m 8s
Ask about School Records
4m 8s
Scrapbooks
3m 27s
Diaries and Journals
4m 51s
Ask for a Tour
2m 47s
Leave Your Contact Info
3m 33s
Unprocessed Collections
5m 28s
Announcements / prize
2m 15s
Questions / answers
9m 43s
About this webinar
Have you ever gotten home from a genealogy research trip or left a genealogy website and said to yourself "I forgot to do that!". Learn the 10 vital things every genealogist should do before leaving a library or archives building or website to make your next research trip to an archives physical building or visit to an archive's website successful.
About the speaker
Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives & Museum. She is affectionately known as The Archive Lady . She lect...
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Comments (117)
Excellent presentation! Thank you
Learned so much from Melissa. Great presentation and superb handout.
As a retired academic librarian, I appreciated the behind the scenes type of recommendations in Melissa's list of 10 things to do. Melissa always provides an interesting and helpful view of archives and how to use them effectively.
Very helpful. So glad I got to her lecture.
I have been doing genealogical research for many years and still did not know much about how to use archives. This webinar was a big help and great introduction. Melissa Barker presented information in an engaging manner and was very helpful.
gave me more incite in what I'm supposed to do when I find different documents on my ancestors and tribe that I really wasn't doing before. Very imformative.
Extremely helpful!! Thank You!!
Very informative and mentioned items I would not have known before. Thank you.