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Taught by Beth Gainer $10, runs for 5 weeks A beginners' course regarding recording and researching your own personal genealogy. Class will focus on forms of record keeping (paper and electronic) as well as locating and researching vital and secondary records. Beth Gainer has been a resident of Rappahannnock County for almost 10 years and has been very active with the youth in the county. Her love of genealogy started around the age of six when her grandfather began to bring take her to cemeteries and tell her the stories about her ancestors who were buried there. By age 12, she was entering stacks of family group sheets into one of the earliest versions of genealogy software, and by her late teens, was a self proclaimed genealogy addict. Throughout the years she has helped many friends, clients and family members locate their ancestors and break through research barriers that they encountered. She has been a speaker at the Fredericksburg Family History Day Conference the past two years and is scheduled to speak there again this coming March. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University and currently serves as a Family History Consultant at the Culpeper Family History Center. She thrives on the challenges that one faces when working on genealogy and is excited at the prospect of helping others with their own ancestral obstacles.