[UVTAGG] - Press Release and Blog - online meeting, Sat 13 Mar 2021, 10 am-Noon MST, PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG
2021-03-09
Journalists and newsletter editors, please include this where you can. These two versions of the press release are posted on the UVTAGG Press Release 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 Mar 2021 - Free online on Facebook and Zoom
10:05-11:00 am MST -- SUBSTITUTES FOR VITAL RECORDS by PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG
11:10-12:00 Noon MST -- TICKED OFF! THOSE PESKY PRE-1850 CENSUS TIC MARKS by PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG
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 Mar 2021, 10:00am-Noon MST - Free online on Facebook and Zoom
10:05-11:00 am MST -- SUBSTITUTES FOR VITAL RECORDS by PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG
DESCRIPTION: All is not lost when we learn that the county courthouse has burned. War and natural disasters have taken their toll on many of our nation’s county courthouses. We'll look at some helpful sources that may still exist.
11:10-12:00 Noon MST -- TICKED OFF! THOSE PESKY PRE-1850 CENSUS TIC MARKS by PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG
PEGGY CLEMENS LAURITZEN has been an Accredited Genealogist (AG) for nearly twenty-five years, and has been involved in genealogy research her entire life. She is the author of several Legacy QuickGuides on Appalachia, an instructor at Ancestry Academy and Family Tree University, an instructor at several GRIP and SLIG courses, and a columnist for Reminisce Magazine. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Laura G. Prescott Award for Exemplary Service to Professional Genealogy and became a Fellow of the Ohio Genealogical Society. She is a former researcher at Ancestry ProGenealogists. She and her husband are Directors of the Family History Center in Mansfield, Ohio. More information about her is on her web site and ICAPGen profile.
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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