UVTAGG - 2023-05-10 - [CHANGE!!!] Press Release: Online Meeting, Saturday, morning. 13 May 2023, MARIE ALEXANDER and SCOTT HILL on Youth and Family History

UVTAGG - 2023-05-10 - [CHANGE!!!] Press Release: Online Meeting, Saturday, morning. 13 May 2023, MARIE ALEXANDER and SCOTT HILL on Youth and Family History

2023-05-10

[This is a CHANGE over what we sent out a few days ago.]

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Don

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

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning,13 May 2023, on Zoom and Facebook

10:00 - 11:00 am MT:   MARIE ALEXANDER on ENTHUSIASM FOR YOUTH IN FAMILYSEARCH CENTER ACTIVITIES

11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:  SCOTT HILL on FAMILY HISTORY ESCAPE APP

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 13 May 2023, 10 am - noon 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:   MARIE ALEXANDER on ENTHUSIASM FOR YOUTH IN FAMILYSEARCH CENTER ACTIVITIES

11:10 am - 12 Noon MT:   SCOTT HILL on FAMILY HISTORY ESCAPE APP

 

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATATION by MARIE ALEXANDER:

Marie will be sharing some of her seventeen years of experience helping youth at the Lindon, Utah FamilySearch Center.  She will be presenting activities, videos, games, etc, that have helped youth enjoy family history.

ABOUT THE CLASS by SCOTT HILL

Family History Escape is a virtual escape room, but rather than working to escape from a room, you are working to help deceased individuals escape from Spirit Prison by discovering their Family History.  Each episode tells the story of an actual deceased individual and systematically leads you on a journey to find historical records to learn more about their life.  Each episode is designed as a fun way to help you learn about different aspects of Family History, i.e. different types of Family History records. The app can be used if you are just learning Family History or are more experienced with Family History. 

 

ABOUT MARIE ALEXANDER: 

Marie Alexander was shown the love of family history by her parents and grandparents since she was a child. This love has continued throughout her life.  She and her husband, Denton, have eight children, twenty-six grandchildren, and one great grand-daughter.  With her husband, she has served at the Lindon Shared Stakes FamilySearch Center for over seventeen years.  She has served for four years as a FamilySearch Support Missionary.

ABOUT SCOTT HILL:

Scott Hill is a retired Chemical Engineer.  He enjoys doing family history and especially loves the programming side of it.  His "This is Family" app is on the Solutions Gallery on FamilySearch. This app is great for helping young children learn about their ancestors by creating an avatar for each of them. You can also find his "Temples In Color" app on the IOS App store. He has 6 children and 31 grandkids.

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 online at present.   As usual, recent presentations and classes are on Facebook and on our 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 650 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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Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA -  snowd@math.byu.edu