Wednesday, May 10, 2023

UVTAGG - 2023-05-10 - [CHANGE!!!] Press Release: Online Meeting, Saturday, morning. 13 May 2023, MARIE ALEXANDER and SCOTT HILL on Youth and Family History

UVTAGG - 2023-05-10 - [CHANGE!!!] Press Release: Online Meeting, Saturday, morning. 13 May 2023, MARIE ALEXANDER and SCOTT HILL on Youth and Family History


2023-05-10
[This is a CHANGE over what we sent out a few days ago.]
Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can.  More information is available on our Home Page  https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog  https://blog.uvtagg.org/ .  Please contact me, if you have additional questions.     Thanks. 

Don

Donald R. Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu  

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning,13 May 2023, on Zoom and Facebook

10:00 - 11:00 am MT:   MARIE ALEXANDER on ENTHUSIASM FOR YOUTH IN FAMILYSEARCH CENTER ACTIVITIES

11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:  SCOTT HILL on FAMILY HISTORY ESCAPE APP
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 13 May 2023, 10 am - noon on Zoom and Facebook

Details and links to watch are on  https://uvtagg.org   and on the UVTAGG Facebook page.

10:00 - 11:00 am MT:   MARIE ALEXANDER on ENTHUSIASM FOR YOUTH IN FAMILYSEARCH CENTER ACTIVITIES

11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:   SCOTT HILL on FAMILY HISTORY ESCAPE APP
 
ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATATION by MARIE ALEXANDER:
Marie will be sharing some of her seventeen years of experience helping youth at the Lindon, Utah FamilySearch Center.  She will be presenting activities, videos, games, etc, that have helped youth enjoy family history.

ABOUT THE CLASS by SCOTT HILL
Family History Escape is a virtual escape room, but rather than working to escape from a room, you are working to help deceased individuals escape from Spirit Prison by discovering their Family History.  Each episode tells the story of an actual deceased individual and systematically leads you on a journey to find historical records to learn more about their life.  Each episode is designed as a fun way to help you learn about different aspects of Family History, i.e. different types of Family History records. The app can be used if you are just learning Family History or are more experienced with Family History. 
 
ABOUT MARIE ALEXANDER: 
Marie Alexander was shown the love of family history by her parents and grandparents since she was a child. This love has continued throughout her life.  She and her husband, Denton, have eight children, twenty-six grandchildren, and one great grand-daughter.  With her husband, she has served at the Lindon Shared Stakes FamilySearch Center for over seventeen years.  She has served for four years as a FamilySearch Support Missionary.

ABOUT SCOTT HILL:
Scott Hill is a retired Chemical Engineer.  He enjoys doing family history and especially loves the programming side of it.  His "This is Family" app is on the Solutions Gallery on FamilySearch. This app is great for helping young children learn about their ancestors by creating an avatar for each of them. You can also find his "Temples In Color" app on the IOS App store. He has 6 children and 31 grandkids.

For more details about the UVTAGG meetings see  https://uvtagg.org and  blog.uvtagg.org/.  Everyone is invited to watch all UVTAGG presentations online for free.  Watch on the UVTAGG Facebook Page or, if you are a current UVTAGG member, watch on Zoom by going to us02web.zoom.us/j/8685807777664 and waiting while your UVTAGG membership is verified.  Our meetings are only online at present.   As usual, recent presentations and classes are on Facebook and on our UVTAGG YouTube channel. 

All meetings of the Group are open to the public with the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The group is in its 33rd year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group.  On the blog is a way to subscribe to receive the press releases by email.  Members of the group ($15/year), besides being able to interact with presenters on ZOOM, receive the  monthly email newsletter TAGGology and have access to the more than 650 videos of past presentations and classes.  The TAGGology newsletter contains a wealth of information about genealogy, including information for Temple and Family History Consultants.  Free sample copies of the Newsletter can be requested by emailing uvtagginfo@gmail.com  . 

Officers of UVTAGG are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Jackson Andersen, Librarian; Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Rick Wightman, Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, Jerry Castillo, and Dawn Brimhall, Broadcast and Website Specialists.  For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at uvtagginfo@gmail.com (801-602-5048), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at gengal@comcast.net  , or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu .

Donald R. Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .
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Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA -  snowd@math.byu.edu 

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

 UVTAGG - 2023-04-04 - Press Release - Free online, Sat, 08 Apr 2023, 10-Noon MDT, JULIE WILCOX, on IMMIGRATION and THE FAMILYSEARCH WIKI

2023-04-04

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can.  More information is available on our Home Page  https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog  https://blog.uvtagg.org/ .  Please contact me, if you have additional questions.     Thanks. 

Don

Donald R. Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu  


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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 08 Apr 2023 - On Zoom and Facebook

10:00 - 11:00 am MT:  JULIE WILCOX on CROSSING THE POND

11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:  JULIE WILXOC on THE FAMILYSEARCH WIKI

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 08 Apr 2023 - On Zoom and Facebook

Details and links to watch are on  https://uvtagg.org   and on the UVTAGG Facebook page.


10:00 - 11:00 am MT:  JULIE WILCOX on CROSSING THE POND

11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:  JULIE WILCOX on THE FAMILYSEACH WIKI

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION: CROSSING THE POND

All of us have ancestors who arrived in the United States from another country. This class will offer help in how to find your ancestors emigration, immigration, and naturalization records from a variety of web sites.

ABOUT THE CLASS : THE FAMILYSEARCH WIKI

The FamilySearch WIKI is an amazing, but underused resource. It is a free tool for finding information about subjects, records that may have been generated by your ancestors, and places in which records may be found. It is like an online encyclopedia for family history research. Learn how to use this great tool to improve your own research.

ABOUT JULIE WILCOX:

Julie Wilcox lives in Pleasant Grove Utah. She grew up in Salt Lake and is the mother of nine grown children. Family History is her passion! She has over 49 years of research experience and specializes in Danish and U.S. research. Julie has been a consultant on the ward and stake level for over 13 years and currently serves at the Lehi FamilySearch Center where she teaches a dozen different family history classes in  person and via zoom.

For more details about the UVTAGG meetings see  https://uvtagg.org and  blog.uvtagg.org/.  Everyone is invited to watch all UVTAGG presentations online for free.  Watch on the UVTAGG Facebook Page or, if you are a current UVTAGG member, watch on Zoom by going to us02web.zoom.us/j/8685807777664 and waiting while your UVTAGG membership is verified.  Our meetings are only are only online at present.   As usual, recent presentations and classes are on Facebook and on the UVTAGG YouTube channel. 


All meetings of the Group are open to the public with the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The group is in its 33rd year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group.  On the blog is a way to subscribe to receive the press releases by email.  Members of the group ($15/year), besides being able to interact with presenters on ZOOM, receive the  monthly email newsletter TAGGology and have access to the more than 600 videos of past presentations and classes.  The TAGGology newsletter contains a wealth of information about genealogy, including information for Temple and Family History Consultants.  Free sample copies of the Newsletter can be requested by emailing uvtagginfo@gmail.com  . 


Officers of UVTAGG are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Jackson Andersen, Librarian; Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Rick Wightman, Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, Jerry Castillo, and Dawn Brimhall, Broadcast and Website Specialists.  For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at uvtagginfo@gmail.com (801-602-5048), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at gengal@comcast.net  , or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu .


Donald R. Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

UVTAGG - Press Release - Free Online, Sat, 11 Mar 2023, 10-Noon MT, ROOTSTECH 2023: Panel Discussion by LAURIE CASTILLO and RAYANNE MELICK

 

UVTAGG - 2023-03-09 - Press Release - Free online, Sat, 11 Mar 2023, 10-Noon MT, ROOTSTECH 2023: Panel Discussion by LAURIE CASTILLO and RAYANNE MELICK

2023-03-09

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can.  More information is available on our Home Page  https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog  https://blog.uvtagg.org/ .  Please contact me, if you have additional questions.     Thanks. 

Don

Donald R. Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu  


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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 11 Mar 2023 - On Zoom and Facebook

10:00 - 11:00 am MT:  ROOTSTECH 2023: PANEL DISCUSSION lead by LAURIE CASTILLO AND RAYANNE MELICK

11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:  NAVIGATING THE ROOTSTECH 2023 WEBSITE by RAYANNE MELICK and LAURIE CASTILLO

Details and links to watch are on  https://uvtagg.org   and on the UVTAGG Facebook page.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 11 Mar 2023 - On Zoom and Facebook

Details and links to watch are on  https://uvtagg.org   and on the UVTAGG Facebook page.


10:00 - 11:00 am MT:  HIGHLIGHTS OF ROOTSTECH 2023: PANEL DISCUSSION lead by LAURIE CASTILLO AND RAYANNE MELICK


11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:  USING THE ROOTSTECH 2023 WEBSITE: PANEL DISCUSSION by RAYANNE MELICK and LAURIE CASTILLO


ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION:

HIGHLIGHTS OF ROOTSTECH 2023: PANEL DISCUSSION lead by LAURIE CASTILLO AND RAYANNE MELICK

Join in and share what you learned and liked about RootsTech 2023.


ABOUT THE CLASS :

USING THE ROOTSTECH 2023 WEBSITE: PANEL DISCUSSION by RAYANNE MELICK and LAURIE CASTILLO

Learn how to get the most and share your experiences using this web site.


ABOUT LAURIE CASTILLO:

1st VP of Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group; Former VP, Exec Sec and Board Member, Utah Genealogical Association; BYU FH Library consultant, teacher 28+ years; Professional researcher, writer 30+ years; Presenter: RootsTech 2016-2020, BYU FH Conference 2014-2019, BYU Education Week 2016-2017; Former Red Cross Instructor, Girl Scout Troop Leader and Chihuahua breeder; Interests include: history, mystery, geography and genetics. Research Specialties: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, New England, Mid-West, South-West and Western Frontier of the U.S.


ABOUT RAYANNE MELICK:

Family history is Rayanne's passion! Her particular interest is Eastern European history and research, which initially started because of the crazy family surnames on her paternal lines. However, she loves dabbling in all areas of the world AND helping other people do the same. Rayanne also loves to travel. She is definitely a history nerd and loves to learn what makes other countries tick (probably a product of her degree in psychology and love of people in general)! Rayanne is working her way through an Eastern Europe certificate program just for the fun of it and loving every moment. She is currently a volunteer in the BYU Family History Library, the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group (UVTAGG), and is the registrar for the Foundation for East European Family History Studies (FEEFHS) organization. Last, but not least, Rayanne has the best job in the world...teaching eight little people (grandkids) to recognize and love their ancestors.


For more details about the UVTAGG meetings see  https://uvtagg.org and  blog.uvtagg.org/.  Everyone is invited to watch all UVTAGG presentations online for free.  Watch on the UVTAGG Facebook Page or, if you are a current UVTAGG member, watch on Zoom by going to us02web.zoom.us/j/8685807777664 and waiting while your UVTAGG membership is verified.  Our meetings are only are only online at present.   As usual, recent presentations and classes are on Facebook and on the UVTAGG YouTube channel. 


All meetings of the Group are open to the public with the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The group is in its 33rd year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group.  On the blog is a way to subscribe to receive the press releases by email.  Members of the group ($15/year), besides being able to interact with presenters on ZOOM, receive the  monthly email newsletter TAGGology and have access to the more than 600 videos of past presentations and classes.  The TAGGology newsletter contains a wealth of information about genealogy, including information for Temple and Family History Consultants.  Free sample copies of the Newsletter can be requested by emailing uvtagginfo@gmail.com  . 


Officers of UVTAGG are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Jackson Andersen, Librarian; Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Rick Wightman, Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, Jerry Castillo, and Dawn Brimhall, Broadcast and Website Specialists.  For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at uvtagginfo@gmail.com (801-602-5048), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at gengal@comcast.net  , or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu .


Donald R. Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .

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Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA -  snowd@math.byu.edu 

Webpage  https://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html