Archive for the 'reference' Category

Who will you find? Tracing your family tree at J-MRL

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

From the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library: Learn to use HeritageQuest for your genealogical sleuthing. The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library will provide two training sessions on how to use HeritageQuest which is a collection of research materials for doing genealogy research. The sessions will be Friday Oct 31, 9:30 am at the Central Library and Saturday Nov 1, [...]

Advice for writers about research « Lisa Gold: Research Maven

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

A few of you out there may be wondering why fiction writers need to do research at all. Can’t they just make everything up? Blogger and researcher Lisa Gold outlines the benefits and potential pitfalls of research, including: You don’t need to know everything about a subject in order to write about it…. And the [...]

Q and A with Stephen P. Ryder

Monday, June 16th, 2008

It happens more often than you might think: I link here at CvilleWords to some interesting site I’ve found in my journeys across the World Wide Web, and within a few hours or days someone leaves a comment letting me know that my latest find was right here in my backyard all the time. Charlottesville [...]