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Offline Rosinish

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FREE Genealogy Course (University of Strathclyde) 2017
« on: Thursday 27 July 17 00:14 BST (UK) »
Hi Folks,

A distant relative who I came across here on RC sent me this link as she has done this course & I thought others may be interested?

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/genealogy

Also posted in The Common Room

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=775820.new#new

Annie

South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: FREE Genealogy Course (University of Strathclyde) 2017
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 27 July 17 08:03 BST (UK) »
I did this course last year.
I am not a beginner but still found it interesting.


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Re: FREE Genealogy Course (University of Strathclyde) 2017
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 27 July 17 08:57 BST (UK) »
Many of us did the original course in 2015!

See: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=737139.0

And follow-ups:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=743943.0 (week 1)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=744400.0 (week 2)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=744918.0 (week 3)

etc.


There are differing views on how good the course was.
For my part, I thought it was poor :-\
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)