Congratulations! You have completed “Genealogy
on the Web.” THJHA hopes you have gained greater insight into researching
family history. Now that you and your junior historians have acquired this
information, put it to good use!
- Exchanging Ideas on the Workshop Bulletin Board
- Evaluating the Workshop
- Earning Continuing Education Credits
- THJHA Genealogy Award
Exchanging Ideas on the Workshop Bulletin Board
THJHA encourages participants to contribute to the workshop bulletin board. Offer ideas and suggestions for projects. Share a valuable genealogical or historical resource. Relate an experience that may benefit others (“inside tips”) or pose a question for North Carolina Museum of History staff or other workshop participants.
Genealogy is such a vast area of research with so many possible avenues (detours, dead ends, and U-turns included!) that it is impossible to cover everything in one workshop. It is important, therefore, for participants to share what they have learned. The name of a regional repository or a genealogist that was particularly helpful, research problems encountered and solved, and links to other genealogy-related Web sites are examples of resources that could be shared.
Let THJHA know what you think about “Genealogy on the Web.” Please fill out and return the evaluation form upon completion of the workshop. Adviser comments will be used to improve this and future THJHA Web workshops.
If you are seeking continuing education credits from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (see below), you must return this evaluation before THJHA will report contact hours earned.
Earning Continuing Education Credits
As mentioned in the introduction, THJHA advisers may earn continuing education credits through the North Carolina Department of Instruction for participating in “Genealogy on the Web.” Contact your local education agency to find out if this workshop meets the criteria for general or technology credits.
Advisers completing the requirements may receive 40 or 80 contact hours, depending on the project option chosen. Option details appear in Description of THJHA Web Workshops in the introduction.
Contact Rebecca Lewis at thjhaclubs@moh.dcr.state.nc.us or at (919) 715-0200, ext. 319, for more information.
Enter your club’s genealogy projects THJHA annual competitions! The Genealogy Award, sponsored by the Friends of the Archives, recognizes a literary project that focuses on the study of family history in North Carolina. Club members should enter their genealogy projects in the Literary Contest to be considered for this award. Although genealogy Web pages are not eligible for the Genealogy Award, THJHA encourages clubs to enter them in the Media Contest. All 2001 contest entries must be postmarked by Friday, March 9, 2001. See the THJHA Adviser Handbook (©2000) for more information.
Note: A club is allowed a maximum of two entries each in the Literary and Media Contests. If your club has many outstanding genealogy projects, you may want to have an intraclub competition to select THJHA entries.
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