JewishGen education

Writing Short Reports

JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This class concentrates on short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers, and to remind you just where your last project left off.

In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of short reports:

a Data Report in list style;
a Lineage Report combining genealogical software with a word processing program;
a Narrative Genealogical Summary Report with citation and media appendices.

Emphasis will be on organization, presentation styles, using your genealogical programs and manipulating data and images to create your short report. The instructor will offer directions for organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and decisions about footnotes and endnotes.

Requirements: Students must have done enough research to have reached a point where they are ready to do a write up. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to read the lessons, write their reports and interact with the instructor. It is important to feel comfortable with computers. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7.

Tuition for this Genealogy is $150. Registration will open two weeks before class begins. Registration is limited and will close when course is full.

If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Please send your query to: Nancy Holden, Instruction Manager

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