UVTAGG - 2023-08-05 - Press Release: Online Mtg, 12 Aug 2023, 10-Noon MDT, MARILYN THOMSEN on DAR RECORDS and CITY DIRECTORIES
2023-08-05
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday morning, 12 Aug 2023, 10 am - noon MDT on Zoom and Facebook: MARILYN THOMSEN on DAR RECORDS and CITY DIRECTORIES
10:00-11:00 am MDT, MARILYN THOMSEN on 10:00 - 11:00 am MDT: MARILYN THOMSEN on SECRETS HIDING IN DAR.ORG: USING DAR RESEARCH TO STRENGTHEN AND EXTEND YOUR PEDIGREE
11:10-12 noon MDR, MARILYN THOMSEN on CITY DIRECTORIES MAY HELP TO RESOLVE FAMILY HISTORY CONUNDRUMS
More information on https://vtagg.org
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday morning, 12 Aug 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 MDT: MARILYN THOMSEN on SECRETS HIDING IN DAR.ORG: USING DAR RESEARCH TO STRENGTHEN AND EXTEND YOUR PEDIGREE
11:10 am - 12 Noon MDT: MARILYN THOMSEN on CITY DIRECTORIES MAY HELP TO RESOLVE FAMILY HISTORY CONUNDRUMS
ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION:
DAR.org is a great genealogical resource! This webinar is about the massive body of data now accessible on The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) website. The DAR Genealogical Records Committees (GRC) have indexed court records, marriage, death records, collected Bible Records and newly indexed thousands of applications for membership. Join this presentation to add another research methodology to your sleuthing tool set.
ABOUT MARILYN THOMSEN:
Marilyn Thomsen is an enthusiastic teacher and a confessed snoop, who loves helping uncover secrets hiding in family trees. She served an Internship at Georgia's National Archive Regional Center to complete her BA from BYU (’05) with a Family History focus on US Southern research. Twice she won BYU’s Family History of the Year Award researching and writing about her Pioneer ancestors. She has served as a Church Family History Service Missionary in the Salt Lake Family History Library and in the FamilySearch's Facebook Community. With her husband, Richard, she has traveled and covered the USA South, Isle of Man, Ireland, Denmark and England. Since 2019, Marilyn has been the editor of UVTAGG's newsletter, TAGGology. She loves painting watercolor portraits of her grandchildren.
ABOUT THE CLASS:
Good methodology, added to new AI digital indexes and images, make city directories an important source for US research. Marilyn will review where and how to locate city directories online and in repositories. Compare what is available on the major sites, Ancestry, FamilySearch, and MyHeritage. She will wring information out of city directories through a few good tales of resolved conundrums that might spark resolution of your own family mysteries.
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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Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA - snowd@math.byu.edu
