Anne Hart - 102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy: How to Find a Job, Internship, or Create Your Own Business

102 Ways to Apply
Career Training in
Family
History/Genealogy

How to Find a Job, Internship,
or Create Your Own Business

Anne Hart

ASJA Press

New York Lincoln Shanghai

102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy

How to Find a Job, Internship, or Create Your Own Business

Copyright 2006 by Anne Hart

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Contents

The Future of Family History Research

With the future marriage of genealogy to smart cards, online databases, or similar authentication technology for family history, population registration (census), and library research, it may be easier to research family lines, not only by DNA matches through DNA testing for deep ancestry, but also with smart, electronic cards designed for electronic identity. Its also a way to track military records as another way to trace family history.

To look to the future, you begin by scanning the pastelectronically and eth-nographically. You might consider working for the government in the various state libraries, working for corporations, or opening your own business researching topics or collecting antiques and old paper records related to family and social history or genealogy.

102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy

1. American Studies Participant/Observer/Reporter
2. Adoptions Researcher
3. Anthropologist/Applied
4. Antiques and Paper Collectibles Dealer in Family History/Postcards/ Photos/Diaries
5. Archivist/State Employee
6. Area Studies Specialist
7. Attorney/Notary/Court Records Researcher
8. Banking historian
9. Biographer
10. Book author/article writer/columnist
11. Book Locator
12. Book Packager
13. Braille Transcriber/Genealogy Records
14. Career Consultant or Counselor
15. Clarifying Secrets in Memoirs Writing/Intergenerational Writing/Publishing Specialist
16. Clergy
17. Collectibles Dealer
18. Computer Database Manager/Researcher/Designer
19. Conference and Seminar Event Planner
20. Conservator
21. Court Records Researcher/Historian
22. Diary Conservator
23. DNA-driven Genealogy Researcher
24. Documentarian
25. Estate Sales and Auction Directors
26. Ethnographer
27. Eulogy Writer
28. Family Conflicts Mediator
29. Family History Gift Basket Entrepreneur
30. Family History Internet Theater Producer
31. Family Newsletter Publisher/Designer
32. Family Recipe Publisher
33. Genealogist
34. Genealogy Camp Coordinator/Life Story Writing or History Research Camp
35. Genealogy Club Events Coordinator
36. Genealogy Events and Trade Show Planner
37. Genealogy Software Designer
38. Genealogy Software Manufacturers Representative
39. Genealogy/Family History Teacheronline or in person
40. Genetics Counselor
41. Geographic Area Genealogy Researcher
42. Gerontologist
43. Gift Book or Booklet Publisher/Writer/Designer
44. Gift ManufacturerFamily History Novelties, Collectibles, Memorabilia
45. Greeting Card Writer/Personalize for Families
46. Handwriting and Documents Researcher
47. Historian
48. Historic Genealogy Society Administrator/Founder/Researcher
49. Historical Handwriting Analyst
50. Historical Society Coordinator/Founder/Administrator
51. Immigrant Ancestor Project Coordinator
52. Indexer/Genealogy Books, Records, and Web-based Databases
53. Intergenerational Interviewer
54. Internships Director for a University
55. Intimate Journeys Genealogical Walking Tours of Neighborhoods Connecting Families
56. Journalist
57. Librarian
58. Library of Congress Employee
59. Linguist/early handwriting specialist/Languages
60. Locator of Descendants for Restoring and Returning Historic Photos, Ephemera, and Memorabilia (found in antique shops, at estate sales, and displayed in restaurants).
61. Matchmaker
62. Medical Historian
63. Memoirs Writing Educator
64. Museum Archivist
65. Music/Musician Genealogist
66. Native American/Indigenous Peoples History/Genealogy Researcher
67. Novelist/Playwright/Memoirs Writer
68. Oral Historian
69. Paper Sales/Marketing/Manufacturing (for conservation and library or museum uses)
70. Personal Historian
71. Personalized Family History Greeting Card Design, Poems, Illustration
72. Photographer
73. Probate, Wills, and Estate Paralegal or Attorney
74. Progenealogist
75. Public Historian
76. Public Servant/Government Employee
77. Public Speaker
78. Publicist/Public Relations Director
79. Publisher
80. Rabbinical Dynasty Genealogist
81. Radio or TV Genealogy Talk Show Host
82. Real Estate Historian (world wide historical property ownership research)
83. Records Administrator
84. Reunions Planner
85. Sales/Genealogy Products/Marketing Manager
86. Satellite/Internet Connections
87. Scholarship Researcher/Ethnic, Area, or Surname Scholarships
88. Skip Tracer (locate people who moved away)
89. Social History Researcher
90. Sociologist
91. Software Designer/Family History/Genealogy
92. Specialist in Finding Womens History-Related Documents (such as maiden names)
93. Surname Group Administrator/Researcher
94. Teacher/Time Capsules and Social History
95. Time Capsules Craft
96. Transcriber
97. Translator
98. Travel Agent: Ethnic and Family Tours Specialist
99. Traveling Genealogist
100. Two-Line Tombstone Writer
101. Videographer
102. Walking Tour Guide-Extended Family and Reunion Walking Tours of Ancestors Neighborhoods Around the World or Locally

These are only a few of the possibilities of part-time businesses you can operate online or in person using what you learned in family history training courses or self-education and/or in an actual undergraduate degree in family history and genealogy. If no graduate degrees exist with the actual title of family history, then an interdisciplinary graduate degree may be used in areas of specialization such as genetics counseling, American Studies, European Area Studies, Asian Area Studies, African-American Studies, Native American Studies, Latino Studies, Hawaiian Studies, Middle East Studies or any other area of social history where you can specialize within a graduate major.

You also can obtain a graduate degree in Library Science, Journalism, Law, History in general specializing in social history, Public History, or History of Science and Medicine, depending upon the niche area of family history you want to emphasize. Genealogy and Family History as a major is an interdisciplinary program. You can also take a degree in general studies or liberal arts and emphasize family history and social history courses, languages, and

If you do major in Family History at a university such as BYU, you will greatly benefit by doing an internship. You can do research outside your country. For example, at BYU, research projects outside the USA exist in numerous European countries and in Mexico. An internship may focus on immigrant ancestor projects.

Careers and research may focus on various state libraries or historical associations. History and family studies are part of an interdisciplinary liberal arts program that emphasizes research and writing. Journalism courses help round out your ability to express in plain language the results of your reading, explorations, and interpretations.