Is there lots of reading involved?

Is there lots of reading involved?

You're going to do a lot of reading both in qualifying to become a genealogist and also once you start work, mainly because most of the records are going to be on paper or in books or online in original form, and even in digital images. You're all going to spend lots of time scanning through material. Of course, that's just finding the ads about people. You also need work at the background social historical context to make sure that these people become real. You're all going to do quite a lot of reading.