Harrisburg Merit Badge College

#4C Record everything you eat for 3 days..

Your family situation will not prevent your earning the genealogy merit badge. If you are adopted, do not know the identity of your biological father, etc., please email both genealogy counselors, to negotiate how you can fulfill the requirements for the genealogy merit badge.

If siblings or first cousins are taking this genealogy merit badge, each Scout is to submit completely different sets of written homework. If this is your situation, please email both counselors to work out details.

If all requirements are not completed for the second in-person session of the College, each Scout would need access to a scanner for scanning and emailing 8 1/2 x 11 documents. (Photographs of homework documents are also acceptable, if they are clearly legible). A printer may also be helpful for printing the forms for requirements 6 and 7.

From David Klees, counselor for genealogy merit badge and retired computer programmer — If your family is currently using genealogy software, you may certainly use this software to help fulfill the requirements for the genealogy merit badge. However, please do not start using genealogy software in order to fulfill the requirements for the genealogy merit badge.

You may use the “Genealogy Merit Badge Workbook” to fill in your written homework, but you are not required to use it.
http://usscouts.org/mb/worksheets/genealogy.pdf

So you know these are coming, when your counselors have received the final rosters for the genealogy classes, you will be receiving two emails with additional information, with the following in the subject lines:
“from David Klees — documents for requirement 4a”
“from David Klees — written homework for genealogy merit badge”
If possible, please read these before the first session of the college.

You will need to submit the written homework for all nine requirements to your counselors. Here are several specific clarifications for what your counselors expect —

(Requirement 2a) Please write the name of the person, if not yourself then how that person is related or connected to you, and ten events in which that person was involved, two sentences for each event, for a total of twenty sentences.

(2b) Please write two sentences for each of 42 consecutive days, something different for each day.

(3) Please write the name of the person interviewed by you, how that person is related or connected to you, and ten specific family events or family facts from the person whom you interviewed, with at least two sentences to describe each event or fact, something in which that person was involved or somehow affected that person.

(4b) Please show or email an original document to support a specific event (birth, death, marriage) listed on your charts for requirements 6 and 7.

(5b) Your counselor David Klees dabbled as a professional genealogist for 25 years and will fulfill this requirement with you.

(6 & 7) The “written homework” email (which you will be receiving) will have attached the “Ancestry Chart” and “Family Group Record” forms, if you wish to use these. All dates for these two requirements must be unambiguous, e.g., the date must be ” 01 Mar 2009″ not “03/01/09”. If space permits, please give the full legal name of all places including the county, e.g,, “Derry Twp., Dauphin Co., PA”. However “Hershey, PA” would be acceptable only if the blank space for location is extremely small.

(8b) Please watch the following video:

(9) Please write the name of a family member, how that person is related to you, and two sentences telling what you learned about that person.

If you have any questions or would like anything clarified before signing up for the genealogy merit badge, please email both counselors, David Klees and Raymond Scarazzo:
davlorkl@gmail.com
rscarazzo@pa.net