[UVTAGG] - Press Release and Blog - online meeting, Sat 13 Feb 2021, 10 am-Noon MST, KENNETH R. MARKS
2021-02-10
Journalists and newsletter editors, please include this where you can. These two versions of the press release are posted on the UVTAGG blog at http://blog.uvtagg.org/ and more infor is on the UVTAGG home page at https://www.uvtagg.org . Or you can conact me. Thanks.
Don Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 13 Feb 2021 - free online on Facebook and Zoom
10:05-11:00 am MST -- HOW TO BECOME AN AWESOME NEWSPAPER RESEARCHER by KENNETH R. MARKS
11:10-12:00 Noon MST -- DEMO OF ONLINE NEWSPAPER RESEARCH TECHNIQUIES AND THE ANCESTOR HUNT WEBSITE by KENNETH R. MARKS
Details and link for watching are at https://www.uvtagg.org and on the UVTAGG Facebook page
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UVTAGG Meeting (Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group) Saturday, 13 Feb 2021, 10:00am-Noon MST - f ree online on Facebook and Zoom
10:05-11:00 am MST -- HOW TO BECOME AN AWESOME NEWSPAPER RESEARCHER by KENNETH R. MARKS
11:10-12 noon -- DEMO OF ONLINE NEWSPAPER RESEARCH TECHNIQUIES AND THE ANCESTOR HUNT WEBSITE by KENNETH R. MARKS
Description: These will be detailed discussions of tips and techniques for performing online newspaper research and how to improve search results. These tips will provide more and better quality search results and show an introduction to The Ancestor Hunt website.
ABOUT KENNETH R. MARKS: He is retired from a 35-year career as a software executive, including working at The Boeing Company, NASA Headquarters, and as a C level executive at several software companies. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Southern California, and California State University, graduated with a BS degree in Mathematics in 1968. He spends many hours with The Ancestor Hunt website, as well as researching his own ancestors posting the results on two family history websites when he has time: http://www.marksology.com/ and https://www.braunhart.com/ . The Ancestor Hunt webpage, created in 2012, is a very popular and helpful website with lots of information. He can be reached at kenmarksology@gmail.com, @marksology on Twitter, or via his Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/TheAncestorHunt .
These presentations can be viewed by anyone on Facebook by going to the UVTAGG Facebook Page. Members of UVTAGG can watch on Zoom, which is more interactive, by going to https://zoom.us/j/909-878-8837 and waiting while your UVTAGG membership is verified. The broadcasts will be online only and NOT in-person due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic.
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 blog and press releases are at http://blog.uvtagg.org/ and you can subscribe there to receive them by email. Besides being able to watch on ZOOM, members of the Group ($15/year) receive the monthly email newsletter TAGGology and access to the more than 500 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 on the UVTAGG website. Officers of UVTAGG are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Don Engstrom, Secretary and Membership Officer; Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Finance Officer; Bruce Merrill and Jackson Andersen, Video and Librarians; Eileen Phelps, Special Projects Coordinator; Carol Hill, FamilySearch Facebook Coordinator; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Rick Wightman, Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, Jerry Castillo, and Rick Klemetson, Broadcast Specialists and Webmasters. The Group is in its 31st year. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org (801-225-6106), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at gengal@comcast.net , or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu .
Don Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .
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