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

  • @ East Tennessee History Center
    January 30, 2016 - 8:00am to January 31, 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 January 19.  Please call (865) 215-8809 to register.  

  • @ East Tennessee History Center
    January 16, 2016 - 8:00am to January 17, 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-...

  • @ The East Tennessee History Center
    December 12, 2015 - 8:00am to December 13, 2015 - 9:45am

    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. ...

  • @ The East Tennessee History Center
    November 21, 2015 - 8:00am to November 22, 2015 - 9:45am

    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...

  • @ The East Tennessee History Center
    October 31, 2015 - 9:00am to November 1, 2015 - 9:45am

    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...

  • @ The East Tennessee History Center
    October 10, 2015 - 8:00am to October 11, 2015 - 9:45am

    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...

  • @ The East Tennessee History Center
    September 19, 2015 - 8:00am to September 20, 2015 - 9:45am

    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-...

  • @ The East Tennessee History Center
    September 5, 2015 - 8:00am to September 6, 2015 - 10:45am

    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.

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