UVTAGG - 2023-06-06 - Press Release: Online Mtg, 10 June 2023, 10-Noon MT, MICHAEL L. STRAUSS, AG, on THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC and CAROL HILL on CORRECTLY IMPORTING TREES INTO FAMILYSEARCH
2023-06-06
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning,10 Jun 2023, on Zoom and Facebook
10:00 - 11:00 am MT: MICHAEL L. STRAUSS, AG, on INFLUENZA: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S DEADLIEST PANDEMIC
11:10 am - 12 Noon MT: CAROL HILL on CAN YOU SEE MY TREE? IMPORTS ON FAMILYSEARCH
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 10Jun 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: MICHAEL L. STRAUSS, AG, on INFLUENZA: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S DEADLIEST PANDEMIC
11:10 am - 12 Noon MT: CAROL HILL on CAN YOU SEE MY TREE? IMPORTS ON FAMILYSEARCH
ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION AND MICHAEL L. STRAUSS, AG::
INFLUENZA: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S DEADLIEST PANDEMIC
In 1918, with the war raging in Europe, a silent deadly killer traveled with the soldiers from the United States over to the war zones in France. Considered America’s deadliest epidemic, it killed more people here than the soldiers that lost their lives fighting. As quickly as the virus spread it disappeared by early 1919. Many genealogical and historical records document our ancestors who died or survived this terrible period of our history.
MICHAEL L. STRAUSS, AG, is a nationally recognized genealogical researcher and speaker. He is a native of Pennsylvania and a resident of Utah and works as a Research Manager with Ancestry. Michael has a BA in History and is planning on getting additional degrees. He is a United States Coast Guard veteran, a licensed Private Investigator, and is certified to testify as an expert witness in courts in many U.S. states. He is also a faculty member of SLIG, GRIP, and IGHR, genealogy course programs across the U.S., where he is the coordinator for the military history courses taught.
ABOUT THE CLASS AND CAROL HILL:
CAN YOU SEE MY TREE? IMPORTS ON FAMILYSEARCH
Did you know that you can upload GEDCOM files to FamilySearch? Carol will be showing how you upload your file to the Pedigree Resource File, how others can view the uploaded tree, and how you can add information to FamilySearch the correct way.
CAROL HILL received her bachelor's degree in Family History from BYU in 2003, and has been helping others with their family history since then. She is currently serving a FamilySearch support mission and serving as a YSA stake family history consultant. She creates Family History YouTube videos to help others understand different features of FamilySearch, and other genealogy sites as well. She loves her 6 children, 31 grandchildren, and wonderful husband.
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
