Various Florida societies such
as Indian River, Lee-Collier County, Okechobee, and Manasota as well as
presentations in Wisconsin, West Virginia, and California. ANCESTRY
magazine contributor.
Bio
Terry and Jim have pursued active careers in education,
teaching since 1969 and teaching students from the ages of 5 to 95. Terry
holds a B.A., M.A., and C.A.S. in French from the University of Maine. Jim
has a B.S. in History, M.Ed., and C.A.S. in Secondary Counseling from the
University of Maine. Terry taught French language and culture classes at the
high school level (26 years) and to adults (since 1995) at the Sarasota
County Adult and Community Education Program. Jim has 26 years of service at
the middle and high school level and since 1995 at the Sarasota County Adult
and Community Education Program. In Sarasota, Terry taught French language
and culture classes as well as team-taught with Jim various genealogy,
computer, and eBay classes. Jim taught many levels of computer literacy
classes, digital camera classes, and scanner classes. They continue to do
workshops for Adult Education in Sarasota. Since 2004 they have also been
teaching the same variety of classes for The Villages Lifelong Learning
College in The Villages, Florida.
From 1995-2000, they served as co-hosts for the popular
PBS Television series Ancestors, traveling around the country conducting
workshops and promoting the series from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco,
CA, and from Dallas, TX, to Portland, ME. They co-authored (along with Jane
Wilson) the book ANCESTORS: A Beginner’s Guide to Family History and
Genealogy that accompanied the series. They also wrote the teacher’s guide
that helped teachers and students benefit from viewing the series. Since
then they have conducted workshops throughout Florida, West Virginia,
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, and each of the New England
states. They especially enjoy getting feedback from their beginners’
workshops as they are freelance writers who specialize in genealogy. They
have published over 40 articles in Ancestry Magazine and they write a
monthly column for The Villages Daily Sun. They have spoken at genealogy
conferences throughout the United States and take a group of adult students
to Salt Lake City for a research trip annually. They worked for Senior
Summer School for 7 years, from 1997-2003, where they taught or directed
over 3,000 students from the ages of 65-95. They were teachers in Madison,
Wisconsin for 3 summers (1997-1999), ran the Morgantown, West Virginia
Program one year (2000), and were the Program Coordinators of the San Diego
and La Jolla Programs for three summers (2001-2003). In addition, they were
the Program Coordinators of the Tampa, Florida, Winter program for two years
(2001-2002). They continue to teach over the Christmas/New Year holiday for
a new company – Grand Edventures at their Orlando location.
They have actively pursued their own genealogies since
1968 and it was this interest that brought them to all the wonderful
technology that is available today – everything from computers to digital
cameras to scanners to iPods. They are currently in the process of
completing a major family picture project along with continuing to research
their own family histories.
