Instructor: Ann Blomquist, MEd.
Students will learn advanced techniques in genealogical research, with special attention to primary sources.
Pre-registration is required and begins October 24. Please call (865) 215-8809 to register.
Genealogy Workshops
The Genealogy Workshops listed below are Previous Genealogy Workshops. ETHS and its programmatic partner Knox County Public Library are currently planning workshops for later in 2022. Updates will be posted here and on social media. In the meantime, Knox County Public Library's online guide Genealogy–Where to Start? is available at: https://www.knoxcountylibrary.org/explore-the-east-tennessee-history-center/genealogy
Previous Genealogy Workshops
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@ East Tennessee History CenterNovember 5, 2016 - 9:00am to November 6, 2016 - 10:45am
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@ East Tennessee History CenterOctober 29, 2016 - 8:00am to October 30, 2016 - 8:45am
Instructor: Eric Head, BA, Knox Co. Archives and/or Dr. George K. Schweitzer, PhD, ScD.
Students use individual computers to access the billions of records and features of Family Search, the largest free genealogical internet site. Items to be explored include available records, family trees, catalog of library items, scanned...
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@ East Tennessee History CenterOctober 8, 2016 - 8:00am to October 9, 2016 - 9:45am
Instructor: Eric Head, BA, Knox Co. Archives and/or Dr. George K. Schweitzer, PhD, ScD.
Students use individual computers to explore the five major genealogical sites: Ancestry, Family Search, Roots Web, Google, and Genealogy in Time. Participants should bring birth dates and birth places of parents and grandparents.
Pre-...
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@ East Tennessee History CenterSeptember 17, 2016 - 8:00am to September 18, 2016 - 9:45am
Instructor: Eric Head, BA, Knox Co. Archives and/or Dr. George K. Schweitzer, PhD, ScD.
Students use individual computers to explore Cyndis List. This site is a categorized and cross-referenced index to over 340,000 genealogical resources on the internet. All of the sites may be called up directly from Cyndis List. Participants should...
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@ East Tennessee History CenterSeptember 3, 2016 - 8:00am to September 4, 2016 - 10:45am
Instructor: Ann Blomquist, MEd.
Students will learn advanced techniques in genealogical research, with special attention to primary sources.
Pre-registration is required and begins August 22. Please call (865) 215-8809 to register.
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@ East Tennessee History CenterAugust 20, 2016 - 8:00am to August 21, 2016 - 9:45am
Finding your Revolutionary War ancestor, service records, pension records, bounty land records, battle records, regimental histories, burials, obituaries, descendants of the veterans, loyalist records. Participants should bring names of service men.
Pre-registration is required and begins August 8. Please call (865) 215-8809 to register...
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@ East Tennessee History CenterJuly 30, 2016 - 8:00am to July 31, 2016 - 9:45am
Instructor: Eric Head, BA, Knox Co. Archives and/or Dr. George K. Schweitzer, PhD, ScD. Students use
individual computers to access over 10 billion records including census and voter lists, birth, marriage and death, military, immigration and emigration, newspapers and periodicals, pictures, stories and histories, directories, court,...
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@ East Tennessee History CenterJuly 23, 2016 - 8:00am to July 24, 2016 - 10:45am
Instructor: Ann Blomquist, MEd.
How to begin your family search using family, governmental, library, and electronic resources.
Pre-registration is required and begins July 11. Please call (865) 215-8809 to register.
