HIST 286

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Southern European and Latin American Family History Research and Methodology

History College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Course Description

Records, geo-historical background, paleography, and methods for reconstruction of individual families; development of demographic and family history studies which may include Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy and their colonies in the Americas.

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Critical Analysis

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to utilize a significant range of skills and abilities in critical genealogical evidentiary analysis and be able to distinguish that from historical analysis

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Incorporate Historical Background

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to recognize and incorporate the historical background of the time and place in their genealogical research.

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Genealogical Research

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to identify and solve basic historical and genealogical problems in Southern Europe, Quebec and Latin America through primary and secondary source research, using library, archival and technological resources

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Research Literature

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to demonstrate content knowledge of primary historical sources for Southern Europe, Quebec and Latin America.

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Effective Communication

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to produce genealogical research reports and narrative family histories and compiled lineages that are clear, precise and well-written

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Research Methods

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to apply research skills learned to the search for their own ancestors and to assist others in their searches in Southern Europe, Quebec and Latin America.

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Computer Programs

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to explain the roles of New.FamilySearch.org and other FamilySearch.org programs, integrating in the process the academic knowledge from this course with a testimony of the current direction of family history in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints