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Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 5)
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 12 April 16 14:50 BST (UK) »
I've not finished week 3 yet, got bored. ::)
(KENT) Lingwell, Rayment (BUCKS) Read, Hutchins (SRY) Costin, Westbrook (DOR) Gibbs, Goreing (DUR) Green (ESX) Rudland, Malden, Rouse, Boosey (FIFE) Foulis, Russell (NFK) Johnson, Farthing, Purdy, Barsham (GLOS) Collett, Morris, Freebury, May, Kirkman (HERTS) Winchester, Linford (NORTHANTS) Bird, Brimley, Chater, Wilford, Read, Chapman, Jeys, Marston, Lumley (WILTS) Arden, Whatley, Batson, Gleed, Greenhill (SOM) Coombs, Watkins (RUT) Stafford (BERKS) Sansom, Angel, Young, Stratton, Weeks, Day

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Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 5)
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 12 April 16 15:12 BST (UK) »
Quote from: smudwhisk on Tuesday 12 April 16 14:50 BST (UK)
I've not finished week 3 yet, got bored. ::)

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Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 5)
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 12 April 16 15:29 BST (UK) »
Quote from: KGarrad on Tuesday 12 April 16 10:10 BST (UK)
I wonder what the drop-out rate is?

I'm still sticking with it, but I'm not impressed so far.

Me too. Although this week there's a couple of websites I hadn't heard of before. So could be  a bit more useful.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 5)
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 12 April 16 15:49 BST (UK) »
I'm still trying but failing badly this week as the sun is shining and the weeds are growing.  I am unimpressed with the huge emphasis on Scotland and USA neither of which are of any use to me as I have English ag labs and chimney sweeps. Don't start me on DNA!!

Linda
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Rayner Suffolk and Sussex
Norris and Wellman Dorset
Wheatley Yorkshire and Suffolk

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Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 5)
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 12 April 16 20:25 BST (UK) »
Whew! Just finished week 4! I liked the logical way that the genealogical proof was set out, and I think that this will encourage me to be a bit more organised with documenting my research, and hopefully stop me going off on so many tangents ::)
Not very impressed with the DNA stuff, a bit over my head, and not sure at the moment how it would enhance my particular family tree. I must confess I skipped over this bit :P
Thought the quiz questions were a bit of a waste of time, and one or two were a bit of an insult to the intelligence ::) Didn't bother with any comments this week.
Looking forward to week 5, sounds more 'up my street' ;D
Jewell - Devon, Cornwall and Manchester
North - Somerset, Devon, Dorset, Cardiff and Warrington
Rowe - Devon, Dorset
Oliver - Somerset

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Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 5)
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 12 April 16 20:31 BST (UK) »
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  Thought the quiz questions were a bit of a waste of time, and one or two were a bit of an insult to the intelligence                     

Certainly were.
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Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 5)
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 12 April 16 22:26 BST (UK) »
Think I have learned more from the books that were reccomended before the course began than the course itself. A few useful bits but on the whole have been disappointed.
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Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 5)
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 12 April 16 22:43 BST (UK) »
Is anyone else irritated by the lecturer's continual habit of starting every sentence with "So, . . . ."?!
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Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 5)
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 12 April 16 22:58 BST (UK) »
Quote from: KGarrad on Tuesday 12 April 16 22:43 BST (UK)
Is anyone else irritated by the lecturer's continual habit of starting every sentence with "So, . . . ."?!

Yes!!! I don't watch the video, but they irritate me so much in the transcripts. (I think that's a correct use of the word.)
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