Sometime in the last year, I started cautiously exploring the idea of becoming a professional genealogist. I've been doing research for over 30 years, ever since I was handed a stack of family trees and memoirs that had belonged to my grandfather, when I was just out of high school. All along the way I've attended meetings and conferences in order to learn more, and this age of the internet seems tailor-made for me.
So last summer I attended a meeting of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists at the Kent Historical Museum. I came away thinking that yes, this is what I want to do. Last fall I joined the National Genealogical Society, and took several of their online classes - learning, most of all, that I don't know as much as I thought I did! In late November I ordered their Home Study Course in American Genealogy, and so far I've completed 5 out of the 6 lessons on it. Just last week I received CDs 2 and 3, and it looks like I'm going to get off the well-travelled path (census records, vital records, library research) and onto brand-new material (land records-drawing maps of meets and bounds; abstracting wills, exploring courthouse records).
I'm loving the journey!
About Me
- Claudia
- 54-year old mother of two (well, three, if you count my nephew); lifelong Presbyterian turned Episcopalian; avid reader; genealogist; webmaster and church office assistant
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