Get With The Plan: 7 Steps To A Research Strategy
Are your research methods unfocused? Do you find yourself jumping around with no clear strategy? This is a real sign that you’re not working with a research plan. In this presentation, Lynn will help you to reign in your scattered approach to your research and stop the aimless and unorganized researching. Get more precise in your approach to uncovering the lives of your ancestors by learning to develop a research plan.
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
What attendees can expect to learn:
• How to identify a plan for each ancestor
• Taking an inventory of what you know
• How to define your research goal
• Developing a working theory
• Identifying resources to find your answers
• Recording your results
• Writing up your conclusions
• Includes a downloadable Research Plan Template
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Lynn Palermo
Lynn Palermo is a genealogy educator, author, and The Armchair Genealogist. Lynn helps family historians with practical research advice. But she also assists genealogists in shaping their genealogy into sharable stories through her webinars, workshops, workbooks and one-on-one coaching. She is the author of her own family history book, The Waters of My Ancestors, a family history children’s book, Maman’s Special Job and her soon to be published nonfiction narrative novella, Death of a Backwoodsman. Lynn believes stories are the ultimate genealogy tool for closing the gap between our families and their history.
