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     Darlene C. Joyce
     4685 Chandler Rd.
     St. Paul, MN 55126

    dcjoyce@findmyfamilyplease.com

  CURRENT LECUTURES AND COURSES:

  • A Beginners Guide to Professional Quality Genealogy

  • Your Genealogy Hobby: Strategies to Keep Family History Research effective, fun and manageable.

  • The Importance of PLACE in Family History Research, including a brief introduction to early migration routes.

  • Writing Your Family History: How to record your family stories, in creative easy ways.

  • Make It Interesting: Strategies for making your family history interesting and adding genuine historical "context" to your genealogy.

  • Finding a research focus, and developing an excellent research plan - this is the class that may change how you work forever, and liberate you!

  • So your name is Smith: strategies for researching common surnames. Includes real life examples.

  • The power of analysis and problem solving: timelines, data spreadsheets, comparing people of the same name, etc.

  • Courthouse Research, including tips for evaluating documents and using special indexes.

  • FUN activities for family history buffs.

  • Internet Genealogy: the Best and the Worst of It.

  • Minnesota Firstcomers: Early Pioneer Settlement, including migration routes of different ethnic groups.

  • Personalized workshop series for family groups or friends wishing to work together to trace their family history.

© 2004, Darlene C. Joyce
Last updated: 8/1/06