The majority of genealogy goals require an analysis of existing evidence. Upon studying that evidence, new goals are set. As we end this course, you should have discovered that there are more questions left unanswered regarding your family.

The list provided in this image might remind you of a few new goals. You have been taught to add those goals to new Research Planners.

Several basic research techniques will be reviewed or taught in Chapter 15 of your textbook. Is there one that seems the hardest for you to follow? Why? Please let me know about this in your assignment for this week.

The most difficult thing about goal setting, is being specific enough in what you want. I noticed that students forget to write down everything that they know about a person including the person's name, the time period the person lived, the places where the person lived, who they married, their children and their siblings. Without that information, I would have a difficult time finding the answers as well. So we should remember to be specific in our requests and thorough in the recording of our information.

Sometimes the difficulty in our research technique involves working on too complex of a goal such as finding the ancestors of John Smith. This goal needs to be broken down into much smaller pieces including those items listed on the yellow note pad.

We have also covered many repositories and databases in this course. Are you now able to describe the difference between an archive, a Family History Center, and a public library?

Can you tell someone when they would want to use each one of these repositories?