Instructor: Ann Blomquist, MEd.
How to begin your family search using family, governmental, library, and electronic resources.
Pre-registration is required and begins January 19. Please call (865) 215-8809 to register.
Second Floor Hours
865-215-8824, eths@eastTNhistory.org |
First Floor Hours
865-215-8830 |
Third Floor Hours
865-215-8801 |
Second Floor Hours
865-215-8800 |
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
Instructor: Ann Blomquist, MEd.
How to begin your family search using family, governmental, library, and electronic resources.
Pre-registration is required and begins January 19. Please call (865) 215-8809 to register.
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-...
Students use individual computers to access vast numbers of records on the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, and World War I. Access to service records, pension records, bounty land records, battle records, regimental histories, burials, obituaries, descendants of the veterans, loyalist records. Limited to 22 participants. ...
Students use individual computers to access over 10 billion records including census & voter lists, birth, marriage, & death, military, immigration & emigration, newspapers & periodicals, pictures, stories & histories, directories, court, land, wills, & family trees. Also reference materials & finding aids. Limited...
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 records, family trees, catalog of library items, scanned genealogical books, research guides, forms and maps, free online genealogical classes, guide to other free online...
Students use an individual computer to explore the five major sites: Ancestry, Family Search, Roots Web, Google, Genealogy in Time. Limited to 22 participants. Instructor: Eric Head, BA and/or George K. Schweitzer, PhD, ScD. Pre- registration required; begins September 28. Call 865-215-8809. Bring birth dates and birth places of parents...
Students use individual computers to explore Cyndi's List. This site is a categorized & cross-referenced index to over 340,000 genealogical resources on the Internet. All of the sites may be called up directly from Cyndi's List. Limited to 22 participants. Instructor: Eric Head, BA and/or George K. Schweitzer, PhD, ScD. Pre-...
Come learn how to begin your family search using family, governmental, library, and electronic resources. Instructor: Ann Blomquist, MEd. Pre-registration opens August 24. Call 865-215-8809.