Developing Good Research Habits

Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA
May 14, 2018
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About this webinar

Developing those good, er, successful research habits takes planning, time, experience, and patience to be effective. Learn steps and tools for becoming a better researcher both at home and in repositories, and for developing successful habits that make the most of your genealogy time budget.

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About the speaker

Paula considers herself fortunate to be an internationally recognized genealogical educator, researcher and consultant focusing on unusual resources, manuscripts, methodology, and analyzing records. S...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    7 years ago

    Very Clear Concise and enjoyable.\n\nVery detailed! Loved it!\n\nVery good and very thorough.\n\nVery good tips on how to research. \n\nVery good. Worthwhile information well presented.\n\nVery helpful ideas - Paula presents things in an organized and logical way. I appreciate that she give examples of things that can be \ndone.\n\nVery informative. Ready to use majority of the suggestions in my research.\n\nVery informative. There's so much out there to learn and Paula presented it in an easily understood format. Her suggestions to take \nclasses, talk to others, join groups, etc. is really valuable advice.\n\n"Very informative. Great presentation."\n\nVery informative. I feel so far from even coming close to having consistent enough methods of researching at this point that these \nsuggestions have helped to make me feel like I am capable of doing a much better job. Everywhere you duscuss genealogy, you hear how far \nanother person has researched and how very much that they have discovered. One begins to feel so at a loss. Paula has made me feel that \nher strategy and methods not only are simple but exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you, Paula. \n\nVery inspirational and high energy speaker. Wonderful!\n\nVery inspirational since I'm just reviewing my genealogy and reorganizing and scanning my files. Thanks\n\nVery interesting and informative presentation. \n\nVery motivating. Paula is a very interesting & knowledgeable speaker. Thank you!\n\nVery organized!\n\nVery thorough and makes setting out to research and document family history doable. Good advice about when you feel overwhelmed.\nWas cooking dinner and only got to hear part. Will catch rest tomorrow. Enjoyed what I heard.\n\nWas very helpful. As a researcher, I was doing it all wrong but good to have some proper guidelines after this webinar.\n\nWealth of information\n\nWebinar gave lots of information that I found very helpful.\n\nWell done - something for everyone\n\nWell organized. Thank you for a great webinar.\n\nWonderful information and ideas! Wish I had learned this BEFORE I started my research.\n\nWonderful webinar on developing research habits.\n\nWrite first impressions! I am going to try this! Thank you!

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    7 years ago

    Great! Wish I had thought about writing my first impression of many finds! Thanks :)\n\nHelpful!\n\nI enjoyed a reminder about all the little things that will make researching and staying organized easier. I'm currently taking courses \nat SLCC so organization is definitely going to be important and I want to be more productive with my time.\n\nI got a few tips about how I should do things. Most just reminding me of what I should do and a few new ways of doing things. I enjoyed \nit very much.\n\nI have been fortunate enough to have heard Paula a few times in person. She always gives her audience so much good, practical knowledge.\n\nGreat genealogist and speaker. Thanks for offering this webinar.\n\nI learned quite a lot. Paula was very helpful.\n\nI really enjoyed Paula's suggestions and tips. So many good things to think about to be more successful in researching.\n\nIncorporating General Events in to your timeline is gold!\n\nInteresting information and well organized presentation\n\n"It was a nice reminder of getting organized BEFORE I research! \n\nThank you!"\n\nIt was clear and easy to follow if one puts their mind to researching correctly.\n\nIt was very helpful for me. \n\nIt was wonderful to have a seminar with great suggestions for more experienced researchers rather than beginners. I really appreciated \nthe new tips I picked up through this webinar even though I have been researching for over 10 years.\n\n"It's so helpful to me if there are concise, listable steps. At one point there were about 5 or 6; I really need to relisten to all of \nthe organized, recording research webinars.... list all of the steps and then choose the ones for EVERY thing I find, and then those for \nspecial circumstances. I'm still swimming in the many takes on how this should work.."\n\nJust what I needed...good tips and strategies! \n\nLoaded with great content, I know I have to listen again!\n\nLOADS of great information - I'm one of the disorganized people she spoke about - 20 or 30 coil notebooks, plastic boxes full of notes \nand documents, sticky notes - too many to count... I am glad I didn't miss this webinar because I really needed to hear it.\n\nLots of good content, well-paced. Bonus: mentions of my home state of Minnesota! ;)\n\nLots of good hints.\n\nLots of good ideas !!\n\nLots of good information. Now I need to get busy organizing my files and write down my tasks.\n\nLots of great information. I'm just getting started with genealogy so it was a good overview and I jotted down things I'd love to learn \nmore in depth. Thank you.\n\nMany good points and suggestions were mentioned. Great ideas!\n\nMy first live webinar with this organization. Well-organized. I really enjoyed it!\n\nOnly Kudos!\n\nPaula always does interesting talks full of good ideas. Her enthusiasm is contagious. \n\nPaula is an inspiring presenter with great tips on doing genealogy well. \n\nPaula is so enthusiastic about genealogy! Love her accent, too!!!\n\nPaula is very easy to listen to and scatters golden nuggets everywhere. Much to ponder.\n\nPaula told us a lot of information in a short hour. I thought it was very effective and efficient. Los of good ideas.\n\nPaula was very fluid and well spoken. The webinar was chock full of info in the syllabus and screen notes. \n\nPaula was very interesting to listen to.\n\nPaula's webinar was LOADED with information. I have to listen again to catch more tips. Even experienced researchers will learn from her \nadvice on researching and organizing their genealogy.\n\nReally appreciated that handouts were available for all.\n\nReally enjoyed this webinar. Sometimes we just have to step back and ask ourselves if we are doing are research effectively. Thanks.\nShe made me think.\n\nSo many great tips and methods!\n\nSo much good information and encouragement to keep on keeping on.\n\nSome very good suggestions that hadn't occurred to me. Thanks for the webinar\n\nSuper good! Great new ideas for me.\n\n"Thank you! Great help!"\n\nThank you. Am not a beginner genealogist yet found her tips very helpful. \n\nThanks for another wonderful webinar that gave me some things to think about in terms of my research habits.\n\nThat was so informative and very inspiring. I have so many ideas to work on I don't want to go to work tomorrow! \n\nThe information was well-organized and very practical. She gave us so many strategies to keep us from getting discouraged.\n\nThe informTion presented was amazing. I can’t wIt to share it with my class. This was one of the best presentations you have had. \n\nPlease continue with this degee of quality.\n\nThis gave me lots to think about focusing my research rather than going in every direction.\n\nThis was an awesome presentation. I will go through the webinars for other programs by this speaker.

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