[Genealib] Genealogy Services to Children

[Eudora PETERSEN]

We work with the local High School Senior Government and History class on their "Dead Man Project"  Each student gets a name and death date before 1945 from the cemetery of an individual not related to them. (Do the rubbing or the class I worked with today was photographing the stones with their cell phones) Beginning at our library the Genealogy Society introduces them to our research and helps them find 1. and obit. from microfilm, 2. the family on the census, 3. the price of commodities and goods for that year, 4. Major news events during that week, 5. local government officials.  They discuss and record the sources of what their occupations were, their family, religion, type of funeral service, location of residence or farm land. Their next stops over this two to three week period are to the local HIstorical Societies museum, the various offices in the courthouse, some will visit a living relative if they find one.  They conclude with written reports and a power point
 presentation. We have had some give these are programs at our society's meetings and have in our Family History Section some of the notebooks the kids donated to us.  
     It is interesting to watch some of the most "uninterested" or "bored" students come to life with the find of "they lived next door to my house",  "there are no prices for cars because they died before cars", "they were a civil war veteran" or today's find "he died in a car accident at age 18 in 1924."  
     We just started this semsters group this week with three class times.  The kids will be in the library on their own researching for the next couple of weeks so it not only introduces them to family research but what a library can provide.
   
  Eudora Petersen
  Cloud County Genealogical Society
  Frank Carlson LIbrary
  Concordia, KS  

Beth Oljace <boljace at and.lib.in.us> wrote:
    We've done a couple programs for middle schools classes, but I wasn't very satisfied with them.  I'm also interested
   
  Beth Oljace
  Indiana Room Librarian
  Anderson Public Library
 

  -----Original Message-----
From: "Heather McLeland-Wieser" <Heather.McLeland-Wieser at spl.org>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:49:45 -0800
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Genealogy Services to Children

  I've experimented with a couple of school groups - middle-schoolers here usually to do something with "family history." But we have no set program.  I would love to here from anyone that does.  I think we have an untapped market.
   
   
  Heather McLeland-Wieser
Manager 
Art Recreation & Literature
History Travel & Maps
206-386-4092


>>> "James Jeffrey" <jjeffrey at denverlibrary.org> 3/4/2008 10:22 AM >>>

Gang

Are any of you currently offering outreach to children and or young adults? 

What sort of programs have you designed and how have they been received?

Have any of you used PodCasting? 



James K. Jeffrey
Collection Specialist in Genealogy
Western History and Genealogy
Denver Public Library

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