UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 12 Oct 2024: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on ORGANIZING AND PRESERVING PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA
2024-10-08
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 12 Oct 2024 on Zoom and Facebook
10 am - 11 am MDT: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on PROTECTING PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA FROM DISASTERS: A PRACTICAL BEGINNING
11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on FAMILY HISTORY THAT LASTS: ORGANIZE, PROTECT, PRESERVE, AND CONNECT
Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 12 Oct 2024 on Zoom and Facebook
Details and links to watch are on https://uvtagg.org and on the UVTAGG Facebook page.
10 am - 11 am MDT: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on PROTECTING PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA FROM DISASTERS: A PRACTICAL BEGINNING
11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on FAMILY HISTORY THAT LASTS: ORGANIZE, PROTECT, PRESERVE, AND CONNECT
ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION:
Many of us wake up one day to find ourselves keepers of the family history or of important family heirlooms and keepsakes. The actions we take now will decide what our posterity knows of their ancestors, including ourselves! Making sure our family photos, documents, histories and memorabilia are protected, fully identified, safely displayed and properly stored. These are some of the most significant things we may ever do for our kin. Done properly, these things will outlast us and help bind future generations to our family trees. Presentation will cover the basics and includes an introduction to websites of major suppliers of archival products, which also contain free educational brochures, articles, videos and examples. We will then visit the websites of major organizations that teach about preservation methods and techniques. These sites offer many additional free guides and resources. You will then be able to start your plan and take the first steps in a logical, ordered and comfortable way.
ABOUT LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO:
Laurie
Werner Castillo was born in Santa Monica and raised in West Los
Angeles with beagles and land tortoises for pets and playmates. She
played on the girls basketball team for two years in high school and
also loved participating in tennis, volleyball and basketball. She
misses the palm trees in her front yard and the smell of the ocean
every day.
After
a really great educational experience in Los Angeles, she attended
BYU, earning an AA in Communications and Fine Arts and a BS in
Consumer Economics. She met Jerry Castillo, from San Antonio, Texas,
in Utah and they have 2 children and 7 grandchildren.
Laurie
is currently first vice president of the Utah Valley Technology and
Genealogy Group; She is former Vice President, Executive Secretary
and Board Member, of the Utah Genealogical Association; She has been
a BYU FH Library consultant, tour guide and teacher for 32+ years;
She has been a professional researcher and writer 34+ years; She has
presented at many conferences including: RootsTech 2016-2020, BYU FH
Conference 2014-2019, and BYU Education Week 2016-2017, We Are
Cousins Conferences 2-7 (2021-2024); She is a former Red Cross
Instructor, Girl Scout Troop Leader, Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor
and Chihuahua breeder. Her research specialties include: Germany, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and Hispanic Research; And New England,
Midwest, Southwest, Mountain States and Pacific Frontier regions of
the US.
She
is currently researching her WWI Ancestors, her ancestors in the
1918-1919 Influenza pandemic, her German family and Los Angeles in
the early years.
Her
interests include: history, mystery, geography and genetics. Add
those up and you have family history.
ABOUT THE CLASS:
The ultimate goal of family record keepers is to create intergenerational connections among family members. We need to organize our histories, photos and memorabilia in a way that both protects these important items and is conducive to sharing their meaning, their stories. This presentation will explore ways of using certain archival products to best advantage. We will talk about some of the more prominent bloggers and authors on preservation ideas. Then we will consider creating copies and backups of your preservation efforts.
All meetings of the UVTAGG group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history. The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group. On the blog is a way for anyone to receive the press releases via 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. TAGGology 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; Beccy Martin, Secretary; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; 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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