I agree with many of the comments here. I guess for me I was looking for some hidden 'gem' of guidance that I'd overlooked and clearly I'm not going to find it.
For me personally, the best bit of information (to date) is about the WW1 Glasgow military resources held at the Mitchell.
On the plus I do like the way Future Learn have structured their VLE (virtual learning environment) I also like they way they are trying to incorporate things like the Google Hang out and that recorded message thing. But, having said that they really haven't worked.
Each section so far has been very repetitious. For example, I've just seen Tahitha talking about the census, I mark that as read and then I have to read almost exactly the same information on the next page..why? I don't like the sweeping statements she makes or the fact "we'll look at that later in the course" she never gives us proper examples at the time. She mentioned school records - so exactly what type of records would an Iman or nun make with regard to an ancestors school life?
We are following Chris's story which is great. But why not use her family to show us how she is drawing up her family tree?
She started to mention research in France ( I don't have French ancestors, but would be interested to hear more!) and then she hastily stopped. For me, there's too many people on the course and the comments, I think are restricted by the very small comment box. The comments just seem very superficial. Like "WOW, great website" or " I never knew that".
I'm afraid however the video's are still top of my complaints list. She's like a large spider in the middle of some ghastly web 'umming' and 'ahhing' her way through family history 101.
I would however like to acknowledge how much time and effort Tahitha and her department at Strathclyde have obviously put into this, but still some considerable 'tweeking' is required!
