[UVTAGG] Press release for meeting Saturday morning 11 May 2013

03 May 2013

Journalists and others, please run this as a news item and/or in your calendar of events.  Email me, if you need further information. Thanks.

Don Snow

UTAH VALLEY TECHNOLOGY AND GENEALOGY GROUP MEETING (UVTAGG)

The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group - UVTAGG (Formerly the Utah Valley PAF Users Group - UVPAFUG) will be on Saturday, 11 May 2013, from 9 am to noon in the LDS "Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo.  Information about the Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on their website http://uvtagg.org and the press releases are at http://blog.uvtagg.org .

The main presentation this month will be by Don E. Norton on  WRITING YOUR PERSONAL AND FAMILY HISTORY.  This presentation will help all of us write and preserve our own and our ancestors' life stories.  Don Norton is a retired professor of BYU's Department of Linguistics and English Language.  For thirty years he taught the Personal History class at BYU, as well as senior seminars in oral history.  A special interest is oral histories of military veterans, notably veterans of WW II, but of other "wars" as well.  He has interviewed literally hundreds of military veterans and compiled their stories.  He has written books and articles and headed the Faculty Editing Service at BYU for more than 20 years.  As a professional editor for 45 years, he edited several volumes in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley series at BYU.  More information about him is online at  http://iris.library.uiuc.edu/~iris/expertise/expertise.htm?id=6716 .

After the main presentation the following classes are presently scheduled.  Check the meetings page at  http://uvtagg.org/  for last minute changes or additions to the class offerings.  (1)  Effective Use of Websites and Their Search Engines or Why Didn't I Find Them the First Time?, by Laurie Castillo;  (2)  Organizing Your Computer Files, by Robert Lasson;  (3)  Using Dropbox, Keynote, and Skype for Genealogy, by Ron Snowden;  (4)  Q&A: Writing A Personal or Family History, by Don Norton;  (5)  Ask An Expert (Personal Help), by Don Engstrom, Bud Wood, and Jim Kendall;  (6)  Video of last month's main presentation: Are Your Ready Now That FamilySearch Family Tree is Live?, by James L. Tanner;  (7)  Ancestral Quest, by Merlin Kitchen;  (8)  RootsMagic, by Sue Maxwell; and  (9)  Legacy, by Dean Bennett. 

All meetings of UVTAGG are open to the public whether members of the Group or not. The Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually about 100 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays. The officers are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Liz Kennington, Newsletter Editor; Renee Zamora, Secretary; Kay Baker, Don Engstrom, and Rayanne Melick working with membership and finances, Bruce Merrill and Marie Andersen working with the DVD Library, and Chris Stevenson as the Webmaster.  Several of these will be there to answer questions, help with membership, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter TAGGology, and check out and sell DVDs of past presentations and classes to members of the group.  Many members don't live close enough to participate in the monthly meetings, but belong by paying $10 per year so they can receive the monthly newsletter and purchase DVD's of the presentations and classes.  And gift memberships are wonderful presents for your family history-minded relatives and friends.  Information about the Group, presentations, classes, and class notes can be found at the websites mentioned above.  For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org (801-225-6106), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at laurie@everythingisrelative.net, or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu.

Don Snow, 2nd VP of Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group (UVTAGG)

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Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

snowd@math.byu.edu