UVTAGG - 2023-04-04 - Press Release - Free online, Sat, 08 Apr 2023, 10-Noon MDT, JULIE WILCOX, on IMMIGRATION and THE FAMILYSEARCH WIKI

2023-04-04

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Don

Donald R. Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu  

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 08 Apr 2023 - On Zoom and Facebook

10:00 - 11:00 am MT:  JULIE WILCOX on CROSSING THE POND

11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:  JULIE WILXOC on THE FAMILYSEARCH WIKI

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 08 Apr 2023 - On Zoom and Facebook

Details and links to watch are on  https://uvtagg.org   and on the UVTAGG Facebook page.

10:00 - 11:00 am MT:  JULIE WILCOX on CROSSING THE POND

11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:  JULIE WILCOX on THE FAMILYSEACH WIKI

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION: CROSSING THE POND

All of us have ancestors who arrived in the United States from another country. This class will offer help in how to find your ancestors emigration, immigration, and naturalization records from a variety of web sites.

ABOUT THE CLASS : THE FAMILYSEARCH WIKI

The FamilySearch WIKI is an amazing, but underused resource. It is a free tool for finding information about subjects, records that may have been generated by your ancestors, and places in which records may be found. It is like an online encyclopedia for family history research. Learn how to use this great tool to improve your own research.

ABOUT JULIE WILCOX:

Julie Wilcox lives in Pleasant Grove Utah. She grew up in Salt Lake and is the mother of nine grown children. Family History is her passion! She has over 49 years of research experience and specializes in Danish and U.S. research. Julie has been a consultant on the ward and stake level for over 13 years and currently serves at the Lehi FamilySearch Center where she teaches a dozen different family history classes in  person and via zoom.

For more details about the UVTAGG meetings see  https://uvtagg.org and  blog.uvtagg.org/.  Everyone is invited to watch all UVTAGG presentations online for free.  Watch on the UVTAGG Facebook Page or, if you are a current UVTAGG member, watch on Zoom by going to us02web.zoom.us/j/8685807777664 and waiting while your UVTAGG membership is verified.  Our meetings are only are only online at present.   As usual, 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.  The group is in its 33rd year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group.  On the blog is a way to subscribe to receive the press releases by 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 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 uvtagginfo@gmail.com  . 

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, Treasurer; Jackson Andersen, Librarian; Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Rick Wightman, 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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