Learning Centers on Ancestry.com
In the Ancestry Daily News today there is an article titled "Viva Learning Centers," by Anastasia Sutherland Tyler. In it she talks all about a new feature at Ancestry.com - The Learning Center.
The Learning Center is a free area on Ancestry.com where you can learn about different resources to use in researching family history. There are currently ten learning center topics, but Ancestry.com will continue to come up with new ones as new content is added to their site and new articles are written on different topics. The current 10 include:
* Census Records
* Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
* Trees and Community
* Immigration Records
* Military Records
* Directories and Member Lists
* Family and Local Histories
* Newspapers and Periodicals
* Court, Land, and Probate Records
* Reference and Finding Aids
Like Anastasia, I don't know much about researching military records, so I can get an overview on how to do it through this Learning Center. I also haven't used newspaper articles very often in my research, but can easily read about it here. It looks like this is a valuable "how-to research" guide.
When you go to the Learning Center page, the ten different topics are located on the right side, under the heading "Learn More About." Topics for future centers include specific holidays and other hobbies related to family history.