Study Group, courtesy of OpenClipart   Desperation drove me to my first study group at university. A fellow student invited me, and the group swapped ideas about how to remember the masses of information we were given in an early-morning class. It really helped all of us, I think, and I was grateful.  South King County Genealogical Society incorporated as "educational in character and devoted exclusively to furthering genealogical research and interest in family and local history." We offer lots of choices, and discuss other educational opportunities here in the blog. See Barbara Mattoon's series on "Your Genealogy Education Plan, Parts One and Two , "  along with many other discussions of podcasts, seminars, videos, books, conferences.  Copyright 2016 Blaine T. Bettinger Debbie Parker Wayne When some of us found Blaine Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne's book Genetic Genealogy in Practice and began discussing it in our Genetic Genealogy/DNA group , the i...

 Odd title to this blog, I know! But I've been learning some things in our latest study group, where we are reading " Research Like A Pro " by Diana Elder and we're following the strategy (RLP). I can't say that some of it is not painful. For instance, while compiling a Locality Research Guide I wanted to follow those meaty links I was finding so much! However, that step comes after we finish the critical parts of those research guides, and get into the Research Planning step. Here are the Research Planning steps, restated in my own words: Research Like A Pro cover 1. State a clear objective, revised if necessary. 2. Summarize the important known facts 3. Clear, specific hypothesis (or multiple if necessary). 4. Identify the best sources to pursue to test your hypothesis/es. 5. Prioritize your research strategy. Of course each of us chose a research subject before we began meeting together, and began to refine a research objective, summarize the sources we alre...