UVTAGG - 2022-03-09 - Press Release - Free online Sat, 12 Mar 2022, 10-Noon MST, RON TANNER on FAMILYSEARCH FAMILY TREE: WHAT'S NEW AND WHAT'S COMING!
2022-03-09
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Donald R. Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday, 12 Mar 2022 - Free on Facebook and Zoom
10-11 am MST: RON TANNER on FAMILYSEARCH FAMILY TREE: WHAT'S NEW AND WHAT'S COMING!
11:10-12 noon MST: RON TANNER on FAMILYSEARCH FAMIY TREE Q&A
Details and links to watch are on https://uvtagg.org and on the UVTAGG Facebook page.
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UVTAGG Meeting (Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group), Saturday, 12 Mar 2022, 10-12 noon MST - Free on Facebook and Zoom
Details and links to watch are on https://uvtagg.org and on the UVTAGG Facebook page.
10-11 am MST: RON TANNER on FAMILYSEARCH FAMILY TREE: WHAT'S NEW AND WHAT'S COMING!
11:10-12 noon MST: RON TANNER on FAMILYSEARCH FAMIY TREE Q&A
DESCRIPTION: Ron Tanner will discuss the new Record Search and then have a discussions on how the Completed Reservation list works. Next will be Family Groups and how to set them up and future plans for them. Last, he will discuss removing temple districts and changes in Ordinances Ready. Most of the second hour will be for questions from the listeners.
ABOUT RON TANNER:
He is the Portfolio Director for FamilySearch.org in the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint. He leads a team with responsibilities for Family Tree, Search, Hinting, Memories, Mobile, Temple, Homepage, and other companion products. Ron has been at FamilySearch for 12 years and presents a Faebook live presentation twice a month to answer FamilySearch questions. You can attend on his Facebook page Family History Ron or review previous events on his familyhistoryron youtube channel. He has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from BYU and previously worked as a product manager and software engineer at Novell, Citrix, and Bell Laboratories. Ron and his wife, CheRee, have four children, 2 sons-in-law, a daughter-in-law, and six grandchildren (5 boys 1 girl)!! This is your chance to learn what’s going on and get your questions answered. Ron is always an entertaining lecturer and knows what’s happening.
For more details about the UVTAGG meetings see https://uvtagg.org and http://blog.uvtagg.org/ . Everyone can view UVTAGG presentations on the UVTAGG Facebook Page. UVTAGG members 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 UVTAGG meetings are just online until the pandemic is over, when we will began having meetings in-person at the LDS "Red Chapel" in Provo, as well as online. 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. On the blog is a way to subscribe so you receive the press releases by email. Members of the group ($15/year), besides being able to watch on ZOOM, receive the monthly email newsletter TAGGology and have access to the nearly 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 Pres. Gerhard Ruf (email address beow - We recently discovered that emails through our website have not been going through.)
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, Finance Officer; Bruce Merrill and Jackson Andersen, Videographers and Librarians; Carol Hill, FamilySearch Facebook Coordinator;; Eileen Phelps, Special Projects Coordinator; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Rick Wightman, Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, and Jerry Castillo, Broadcast Specialists and Webmasters. The Group is in its 32nd year.
Officer elections will be this month and nominations will be accepted until the night of 11 Mar. Members will vote through Zoom at the meeting at the start of the 11:10 am class period.
For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at gruf@byu.net (801-225-6106), 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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