This has been an interesting week. It was a reminder of some of the things I learned when I was making scrapbooks. It is so important to use the right types of paper and products to preserve our records. 

The other thing that came from this weeks lesson was the need to preserve my father's papers. Over the last few years it has become apparent that I am the gatherer of my father's history. He was a private man and did not share much of his life with his children. Now I can see documents and letters that were important to him. However they were kept in a scrapbook that went through a flood and some of them were damaged. But a lot of the damage came from the adhesives that were used back in the 60's and 70's. I have put most of it in an archival safe box and then I need to organize it. 

I feel this will help me be prepared if and when I am to examine old documents and respect the age of those documents. 

This blog will become my journal for reflections about what I discover in my class on the Internet and computers as I work on my Associates Degree in Family History Research. 

This week as been spent on getting acquainted with my classmates and learning about the course. 

I am very excited to learn about RootsMagic and how to use the resources available online to do genealogy. In some of the other classes I have been frustrated because I did not know what is out there and when I did find them I did not understand how to use them correctly. Now I look forward to the challenge of learning about databases and especially how to use RootsMagic.