New & Free collaborative guide for teaching about WWI

The School of Education at UNC (this time along with Virginia Tech) continues to create resources that both help educate on historical topics of interest to family historians while expanding the ways that youth can be engaged in learning about the history behind family stories.

The most recent partnership is with the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).

ABMC, a government agency that administers America’s overseas Armed Forces cemeteries, established a partnership with LEARN NC, the outreach arm of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Virginia Tech to create a guide to help educators teach about World War I. The initiative matched curriculum-development experts from the two universities with middle and high school teachers from North Carolina and Virginia to study an American WWI cemetery in France and to develop a multimedia teaching guide from what they learned.

You can access the FREE guide, Bringing the Great War Home: Teaching with the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, via this link.

Read more about the project on the UNC site and also on the ABMC site (you can also access the 10 chapters of the guide or it is available to be downloaded via iBooks with a link provided).

Are you aware of other collaborative efforts between academia and a government entity (whether Federal, State or Local) we should be aware of?

Editor’s Note: Previous Upfront with NGS post, UNC, Ancestry.com collaborate to create new history teaching guide -- Family History in the Classroom discusses another collaborative project involving the UNC School of Education which has relevance to family historians.

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Paths to Your Past, A New Book for Beginners

NGS is pleased to offer a new publication for beginning genealogists, Paths to Your Past, edited by Pamela Boyer Sayre, CG, CGL and NGS Director of Education and Publications, with contributions from Marty Hiatt, CG. The new 57-page, soft-cover book replaces an earlier publication entitled Instructions for Beginners in Genealogy, which was last updated in 2001.

Because the Internet has drastically changed the way we search for our ancestors, the new publication has been rewritten and reorganized to help beginners get started in the search for their ancestors. It tells how to collect information from family, libraries, government agencies at all levels, and the Internet; how to record facts; and how to write citations for sources so that they or anyone else can find them again in the future if need be. You will also find suggestions for learning more about genealogy. The book also includes a glossary for often-used family research terms.

Paths to Your Past would make an excellent addition to your library, teaching tool, or gift for friends or relatives new to genealogy. It is available in print at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org: click on Store, and search for Paths to Your Past. Please make sure you are logged on at the NGS website before proceeding to the Store. This will ensure that the member discount is applied to your purchases. The cost, which includes shipping, is $18 for members and $21 for non-members. If you teach family history research courses and would like to purchase multiple copies, a discount is available for purchases of 12 or more copies by contacting macdonald@ngsgenealogy.org. Look for the PDF version in the online store soon!