Excited about Fall 2017 - teaching a course on Genealogy

This fall I'll be back in the classroom teaching and am excited that I'll be part of a Learning Community for Queens University of Charlotte.  A learning community has 4 connected courses, and students enroll in any two of the courses, based on their requirements.  The 4 courses in our community are Spiritual Storytelling; Who Are You Born to Be? (a class on DNA); Jazz, America's Musical Identity; and my course, Your Family History Identity: Discovering Who You Are.

So suddenly I'm going from learning about the genealogical proof standard in intensive courses at IGHR and SLIG, to teaching sophomore students about genealogy. I did teach at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute connected to Widener University for several years, but there I was teaching senior citizens how to use the web to do searches.  So this course is different both in students and content.

This course is much more about how to do historical research on an ancestor.  Included in the course assignments are blogs (each students will be creating their own blog and blogging 5 times during the semester), as well as preparing a narrative summary on one of their ancestors that are in the 1930 census or earlier.

I've been prepping all summer, and have developed a slide show of pictures to start the first class. It was hard to cull them down, but I know by the end of the semester they will have learned a lot about both my husbands family and mine.  For now - a picture of my grandparent Yoder's farm outside of Minerva. A favorite place during the summer for us to visit and stay and work!  But that is what makes the memories. Now on to more class planning!