UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 9 Nov 2024: MARILYN THOMSEN on FEDERAL AND STATE MILITARY RECORDS

UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 9 Nov 2024: MARILYN THOMSEN on FEDERAL AND STATE MILITARY RECORDS

2024-11-06

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can. If you need more information, please see our website -- https://uvtagg.org and Press Release Blog https://blog.uvtagg.org/ . If you have questions, please contact me. Thanks.

for Don

Donald R. Snow - snowd@math.byu.edu 

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 9 Nov 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

10 am - 11 am MST: MARILYN THOMSEN on MILITARY RESEARCH WHEN AND WHERE

11:10 - 12 Noon MST: MARILYN THOMSEN on STATE MILITARY RECORDS RESEARCH

Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 9 Nov 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

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

10 am - 11 am MDT: MARILYN THOMSEN on MILITARY RESEARCH WHEN AND WHERE

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: MARILYN THOMSEN on STATE MILITARY RECORDS RESEARCH

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION:

Thinking of exploring your ancestor's military records? Military records are an important USA source of information. They are especially valuable when researching families before the 1850 Census.  Marilyn will discuss military records, how they are organized and what you can expect to discover. Also the major repositories of records and search strategies will be included.

ABOUT MARILYN THOMSEN:

Marilyn Thomsen has been the editor of TAGGology, the Utah Valley and Technology Group’s newsletter for 10 years. She graduated with a BA from BYU (’05) with a Family History focus in US Southern research. She was a volunteer on the US & Canada floor at the Family Search Library in SLC and worked on other projects. She was Director at three FamilySearch Centers in Utah. After completing National DAR training, she enjoyed lineage research for new applicants. During her BYU Internship at the National Archive Regional Center in Georgia, she rambled through courthouses and cemeteries of her Southern roots. With her husband, Richard, she visited the homes, parishes and archives of her ancestors in Denmark, Isle of Man and England. Marilyn loves to put flesh on the bones of her ancestors and won BYU’s Family History of the Year Award for histories focusing on her Utah Pioneer ancestors. Her enthusiasm when teaching comes because she really loves helping others find their roots. Her husband, Richard, shares a passion for digging up dead relatives and connecting them to living relatives.

ABOUT THE CLASS:

State Archives may have your ancestor's military records. Local archives have databases and records not found in Federal databases. This intermediate level class discusses the importance of being familiar with local county histories and records when researching your ancestor's military background.

All meetings of the UVTAGG group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history. The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group. On the blog is a way for anyone to receive the press releases via 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. TAGGology 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; Beccy Martin, Secretary; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; 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 .

for Donald R. Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .

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UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 12 Oct 2024: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on ORGANIZING AND PRESERVING PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA

UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 12 Oct 2024: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on ORGANIZING AND PRESERVING PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA

2024-10-08

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can. If you need more information, please see our website -- https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog https://blog.uvtagg.org/ . If you have questions, please contact me. Thanks.

Don

Donald R. Snow - snowd@math.byu.edu

 

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 12 Oct 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

10 am - 11 am MDT: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on PROTECTING PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA FROM DISASTERS: A PRACTICAL BEGINNING

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on FAMILY HISTORY THAT LASTS: ORGANIZE, PROTECT, PRESERVE, AND CONNECT

Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 12 Oct 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

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

10 am - 11 am MDT: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on PROTECTING PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA FROM DISASTERS: A PRACTICAL BEGINNING

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on FAMILY HISTORY THAT LASTS: ORGANIZE, PROTECT, PRESERVE, AND CONNECT

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION:

Many of us wake up one day to find ourselves keepers of the family history or of important family heirlooms and keepsakes. The actions we take now will decide what our posterity knows of their ancestors, including ourselves! Making sure our family photos, documents, histories and memorabilia are protected, fully identified, safely displayed and properly stored. These are some of the most significant things we may ever do for our kin.  Done properly, these things will outlast us and help bind future generations to our family trees. Presentation will cover the basics and includes an introduction to websites of major suppliers of archival products, which also contain free educational brochures, articles, videos and examples. We will then visit the websites of major organizations that teach about preservation methods and techniques. These sites offer many additional free guides and resources. You will then be able to start your plan and take the first steps in a logical, ordered and comfortable way.

ABOUT LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO:

Laurie Werner Castillo was born in Santa Monica and raised in West Los Angeles with beagles and land tortoises for pets and playmates. She played on the girls basketball team for two years in high school and also loved participating in tennis, volleyball and basketball. She misses the palm trees in her front yard and the smell of the ocean every day.
 
After a really great educational experience in Los Angeles, she attended BYU, earning an AA in Communications and Fine Arts and a BS in Consumer Economics. She met Jerry Castillo, from San Antonio, Texas, in Utah and they have 2 children and 7 grandchildren.
 
Laurie is currently first vice president of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group; She is former Vice President, Executive Secretary and Board Member, of the Utah Genealogical Association; She has been a BYU FH Library consultant, tour guide and teacher for 32+ years; She has been a professional researcher and writer 34+ years; She has presented at many conferences including: RootsTech 2016-2020, BYU FH Conference 2014-2019, and BYU Education Week 2016-2017, We Are Cousins Conferences 2-7 (2021-2024); She is a former Red Cross Instructor, Girl Scout Troop Leader, Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor and Chihuahua breeder. Her research specialties include: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and Hispanic Research; And New England, Midwest, Southwest, Mountain States and Pacific Frontier regions of the US.
 
She is currently researching her WWI Ancestors, her ancestors in the 1918-1919 Influenza pandemic, her German family and Los Angeles in the early years.
 
Her interests include: history, mystery, geography and genetics. Add those up and you have family history.

ABOUT THE CLASS:

The ultimate goal of family record keepers is to create intergenerational connections among family members. We need to organize our histories, photos and memorabilia in a way that both protects these important items and is conducive to sharing their meaning, their stories. This presentation will explore ways of using certain archival products to best advantage. We will talk about some of the more prominent bloggers and authors on preservation ideas. Then we will consider creating copies and backups of your preservation efforts.

All meetings of the UVTAGG group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history. The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group. On the blog is a way for anyone to receive the press releases via 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. TAGGology 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; Beccy Martin, Secretary; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; 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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UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 14 Sep 2024: RICK KLEMETSON on DNA

UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 14 Sep 2024: RICK KLEMETSON on DNA

2024-09-09

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can. If you need more information, please see our website -- https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog https://blog.uvtagg.org/ . If you have questions, please contact me. Thanks.

Don

Donald R. Snow - snowd@math.byu.edu

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 14 Sep 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

10 am - 11 am MDT: RICK KLEMETSON on IS YOUR TREE REALLY CORRECT? HOW CAN DNA HELP?

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: RICK KELMETSON on DNA: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 14 Sep 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

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

10 am - 11 am MDT: RICK KLEMETSON on IS YOUR TREE REALLY CORRECT? HOW CAN DNA HELP?

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: RICK KELMETSON on DNA: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION:

You have a great tree. Now what? How do you know it is correct? This presentation reviews the many DNA tools available today to help confirm each of your lines. Along the way you may discover new truths, and help your DNA matches discover their truths.

ABOUT RICK KLEMETSON:

Rick Klemetson caught the genealogy bug while taking a genealogy class at BYU in 1984. He helped many people around the world research their genealogy. Rick has been involved in the computer industry since the 80's and currently teaches online classes for a Denver software company. He was introduced to DNA a decade ago, and became addicted to helping adopted people identify their birth families. He has helped hundreds of adoptees find their families over the years.

 

ABOUT THE CLASS:

We will review several DNA search cases and how the tools were used to solve them.

All meetings of the UVTAGG group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history. The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group. On the blog is a way for anyone to receive the press releases via 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. TAGGology 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; Beccy Martin, Secretary; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; 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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UVTAGG 2024-08-04 - Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 10 Aug 2024: Dawn, Wendy, and Sandra, Brimhall on GETTING YOUTH INTERESTED IN FAMILY HISTORY

UVTAGG 2024-08-04 - Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 10 Aug 2024: Dawn, Wendy, and Sandra, Brimhall on GETTING YOUTH INTERESTED IN FAMILY HISTORY

2024-08-04

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can. If you need more information, please see our website -- https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog https://blog.uvtagg.org/ . If you have questions, please contact me. Thanks.

Don

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

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 10 Aug 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

10 am - 11 am MDT: DAWN BRIMHALL on Beyond the Dusty Box: Turning Family History into a Teen Adventure

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: SANDRA AND WENDY BRIMHALL on Family History Coloring Books: Making Your Heritage Accessible to Everyone

Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 10 Aug 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

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

10 am - 11 am MDT: DAWN BRIMHALL on Beyond the Dusty Box: Turning Family History into a Teen Adventure

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: Sandra and Wendy Brimhall on Family History Coloring Books: Making Your Heritage Accessible to Everyone

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION;

Struggling to get your teenager interested in family history? This presentation explores interactive tech tools, creative projects, and collaborative strategies to turn genealogy research into a rewarding family adventure. Learn how parents and teens can work together to build a family tree, unearth hidden stories, and connect with their ancestors – all while strengthening family bonds in the process.

ABOUT DAWN BRIMHALL:

Dawn Retta Brimhall received a BA in History Teaching from Brigham Young University (2011) and a Masters in Education from the University of St. Thomas (2018). In 2020, she was named the Aldine Independent School District (ISD) Secondary Teacher of the Year in Houston, Texas. She currently serves as the Social Studies Instructional Specialist at Davis High School in Aldine ISD. She enjoys travel, photography, music, and family history.

 

ABOUT THE CLASS:

Family coloring books aren’t just for kids. They are a great way to make your heritage accessible and interesting to everyone. This webinar will discuss why and how to make a family coloring book and give examples of the different types you can do. We will also provide suggestions on ways to get everyone involved in the project, including how to create or find illustrations.

ABOUT SANDRA AND WENDY BRIMHALL:

Sandra Brimhall has a B.S. in Mass Communication from the University of Utah. She was a co-author of Brigham Young’s Homes and she has published many times in the Utah Historical Quarterly. She has received two awards from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies for her articles. Wendy Brimhall has a B.A. in Family History from Brigham Young University. She did a family history internship at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky. She is employed as an associate genealogist with ProGenealogists.

All meetings of the UVTAGG group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history. The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group. On the blog is a way for anyone to receive the press releases via 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. TAGGology 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; Beccy Martin, Secretary; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; 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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UVTAGG - Press Release: Online Mtg, 13 Jul 2024, 10-12 Noon MDT, DALLAN QUASS on USING AI TO TRANSCRIBE, SUMMARIZE, AND EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS followed by OPEN DISCUSSION ON FAMILY HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

UVTAGG - 2024-07-10 - Press Release: Online Mtg, 13 Jul 2024, 10-12 Noon MDT, DALLAN QUASS on USING AI TO TRANSCRIBE, SUMMARIZE, AND EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS followed by OPEN DISCUSSION ON FAMILY HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

2024-07-10

 

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can.    If you need more information, please see our website --  https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog   https://blog.uvtagg.org/ .   If you have questions, please contact me.   Thanks. 

Don

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

 

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 13 Jul 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

10 am - 11 am MDT:  DALLAN QUASS on USING AI TO TRANSCRIBE, SUMMARIZE, AND EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM HANDWRITTEN GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT:  OPEN DISCUSSION ON FAMILY HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 13 Jul 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

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

10 am - 11 am MDT:  DALLAN QUASS on USING AI TO TRANSCRIBE, SUMMARIZE, AND EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM HANDWRITTEN GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: CAROL HILL, RAYANNE MELICK, GERHARD RUF, AND OTHERS on OPEN DISCUSSION ON FAMILY HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

 

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION;

USING AI TO TRANSCRIBE, SUMMARIZE, AND EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM HANDWRITTEN GENEALOGICAL DOCUMENTS

This presentation will explain how to use multi-modal large language models (LLMs) to transcribe handwritten genealogical documents and how to summarize the documents, including names, dates, and places. It will compare the cost and performance of several LLMs so you can decide which one is best for you.

ABOUT DALLAN QUASS:

Dallan Quass has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and Bachelors and Masters degrees in computer science from BYU. He has extensive software development experience, especially extracting information from the Web and creating leading-edge search engines. He has served as the CTO of FamilySearch and has co-founded several software startups: RootsFinder, acquired by Findmypast, WhizBang! Labs, acquired by Inxight Software, FlipDog, acquired by Monster.com, and Junglee, acquired by Amazon.com. His interest in family history prompted him to develop two other family history websites:  gengophers.com  and  werelate.org, both of which have been listed among the top 101 family history websites according to Family Tree Magazine. Finally, he has written over a dozen academic publications which have been cited over 6,000 times according to  academic.research.microsoft.com.

 

ABOUT THE CLASS:

OPEN DISCUSSION ON FAMILY HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

This will present an opportunity for any participant in the live broadcast to share their positive experiences, frustrations or ask questions or provide answers for other's questions related to family history and using technology.

All meetings of the UVTAGG group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group.  On the blog is a way for anyone  to receive the press releases via 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.  TAGGology 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; Beccy Martin, Secretary ; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; 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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UVTAGG - Press Release: Online Mtg, 08 Jun 2024, 10-12 Noon MDT, BONNIE DIMOND and CAROL HILL on YOUTH AND FAMILY HISTORY and FAMILYSEARCH SUPPORT

UVTAGG - 2024-06-04 - Press Release: Online Mtg, 08 Jun 2024, 10-12 Noon MDT, BONNIE DIMOND and CAROL HILL on YOUTH AND FAMILY HISTORY and FAMILYSEARCH SUPPORT

2024-06-04

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can.    If you need more information, please see our website --  https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog  https://blog.uvtagg.org/ .   If you have questions, please contact me.   Thanks. 

Don

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

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 08 Jun 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

10 am - 11 am MDT:  BONNIE DIMOND on INVOLVING YOUTH IN FAMILY HISTORY

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT:  CAROL HILL on FAMILYSEARCH SUPPORT REVEALED

Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 08 Jun 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

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

10 am - 11 am MDT:  BONNIE DIMOND on INVOLVING YOUTH IN FAMILY HISTORY

11:10 - 12 Noon MDT: CAROL HILL on FAMILYSEARCH SUPPORT REVEALED

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION; INVOLVING YOUTH IN FAMILY HISTORY

How to host a youth family history camp using a FamilySearch Center to train the youth in your area. Ideas for youth temple and family history consultants.

ABOUT BONNIE DIMOND:

Bonnie Dimond has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from BYU.   She and her husband, Mike Dimond, have served as Stake Temple and Family History Consultants and Associate Directors of the Alpine FamilySearch Center since 2021. During this time, the Dimonds have focused on teaching the youth in their area how to do family history.  They have taught multiple youth summer camps as well as numerous activities and training for the youth in multiple stakes in their area.

ABOUT THE CLASS: FAMILYSEARCH SUPPORT REVEALED

Carol Hill, who is currently serving a Service Mission for FamilySearch Support, will be sharing FamilySearch Support Contact Options, what it is like to Serve a Support mission, what skills we develop, what resources we use to answer questions, etc. After listening to this presentation, she hopes you will want to join the team!!

ABOUT CAROL HILL:

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 UVTAGG group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group.  On the blog is a way for anyone  to receive the press releases via 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.  TAGGology 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; Beccy Martin, Secretary ; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; 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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UVTAGG - 2025-05-08 - Press Release: Online Mtg, 11 May 2024, 10-12 Noon MDT, BETH ANN WISEMAN on METADATA OF PHOTOS

UVTAGG - 2025-05-08 - Press Release: Online Mtg, 11 May 2024, 10-12 Noon MDT, BETH ANN WISEMAN on METADATA OF PHOTOS

2024-05-08

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can.    If you need more information, please see our website --  https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog  https://blog.uvtagg.org/ .   If you have questions, please contact me.   Thanks. 

Don

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

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 11 May 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

10 am - 11 AM MDT:  BETH ANN WISEMAN on Metadata Magic:  Preserving the Writing On the Back Of the Photo (Metadata) In Digital Photos

11:10-12 Noon MDT:  BETH ANN WISEMAN on Metadata Magic: How Do I Embed Metadata In My Digital Photos?

Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 11 May 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

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

10 am - 11 AM MDT:  BETH ANN WISEMAN on Metadata Magic:  Preserving the Writing On the Back Of the Photo (Metadata) In Digital Photos

11:10-12 Noon MDT:  BETH ANN WISEMAN on Metadata Magic: How Do I Embed Metadata In My Digital Photos?

ABOUT BETH ANN WISEMAN:

Beth Ann Wiseman's passion is preserving family photos, both personally and professionally.  As a teenager in the 1970s, she received xeroxed copies of copies of family stories whose blubs and blurs were barely readable.  Since she was not able to source photos and stories, she pondered how she could preserve her rich family heritage for her children and grandchildren.  She has a B. A. in History and a Masters degree in Computer Science, initially working as a software developer, which included the scanning of digital images - the perfect solution for preserving and sharing family stories. At that time it was difficult to share scanned images. The rest of the story needed to go along with the images. She tried file system strategies, static html files on a CD, and even creating a database on CD.  Nothing seemed to work really well.

Beth Ann was one of the original members of the engineering team at FamilySearch that implemented Memories and she still works on that team - her dream job.  Memories addresses many of the sticking points for sharing family photos and stories.  She is also involved with an organization created by Gordon Clarke at FamilySearch to standardize how the family history industry uses metadata properties and she has been testing and validating the standards proposed by the Family History Metadata Working Group (FHMWG).

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION;

Embedding the writing on the back of the photo so that it travels with the photo as embedded metadata creates magic in finding and sharing your photos and their stories.  Once you know why, you will want to know how. This main presentation discusses why you would want to go to the effort of embedding the writing on the back of the photo into your digital photos. And what do FamilySearch and others do with metadata in a photo?

ABOUT THE CLASS:

OK, I'm convinced. I really want the magic of metadata in my digital photos. How can I do that?  What tools can I use?

All meetings of the UVTAGG group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group.  On the blog is a way for anyone  to receive the press releases via 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.  TAGGology 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; Secretary (Vacant); Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; 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 

UVTAGG - Press Release: Online Mtg, 13 Apr 2024, 10-12 Noon MDT, ROBERT GIVENS ON NEW FEATURES IN FAMILYSEARCH

UVTAGG - Press Release: Online Mtg, 13 Apr 2024, 10-12 Noon MDT, ROBERT GIVENS ON NEW FEATURES IN FAMILYSEARCH

2024-04-04

Journalists and newsletter editors, please post this where you can.    If you need more information, please see our website --  https://uvtagg.org  and Press Release Blog  https://blog.uvtagg.org/ .   If you have questions, please contact me.   Thanks. 

Don

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

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 13 Apr 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

10 am - 11 AM MDT:  ROBERT GIVENS on FAMILYSEARCH LABS: FAMILY GROUP TREES AND THE TOGETHER APP

11:10-12 Noon MDT:  ROBERT GIVENS on FIVE LESSER USED FEATURES OF FAMILYSEARCH

More details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 13 Apr 2024 on Zoom and Facebook

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

10 am - 11 AM MDT:  ROBERT GIVENS on FAMILYSEARCH LABS: FAMILY GROUP TREES AND THE TOGETHER APP

11:10-12 Noon MDT:  ROBERT GIVENS on FIVE LESSER USED FEATURES OF FAMILYSEARCH

ABOUT ROBERT GIVENS:

Robert Givens has received advanced degrees from Fresno State College and California State University, Fresno. His career in education spanned 39 years in that area. He started researching in family history during his high school years and has been even more actively involved since his retirement in 2008. This included 8 years directing the Fresno North Stake Family History Center and currently with his wife is an Area Temple and Family History Adviser for 11 stakes in the Fresno region.

For 15 years as a FamilySearch volunteer he was actively involved supporting various features of FamilySearch, including helping patrons with their problem records, launching and supporting social communities and administering research groups sponsored by FamilySearch in Facebook, and working on its Research Wiki. He is an experienced researcher in New England, Midwest and Southern state records, has published 4 genealogy books, and presented on genealogical topics in multiple states. When he is not researching, he loves to garden, read, and watch sports on TV.

ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION -- FAMILYSEARCH LABS: FAMILY GROUP TREES AND THE TOGETHER APP

These new features of FamilySearch were made public at RootsTech 2024.  The Family Group Trees feature has been in the works for over 7 years and allows a family to create a private place on FamilySearch where the living members of the family can create a tree of the living where everyone can see everyone else in the group.  Memories and sources can be added and everyone in the group can see them. The Together app is a new app that is intended to be a companion to the new Family Group Trees. With it you can share many kinds of things about yourself and your family and share with the living members of your Family Group Tree.

ABOUT THE CLASS -- FIVE LESSER USED FEATURES OF FAMILYSEARCH

This presentation covers the following features:

- Start Discovering Your Family Story

- The About page

- Time Line and Map page

- Chats, Notes, Discussions and Brief Life Story (Collaboration Tools), and

-The feature called Following.

All meetings of the Group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group.  On the blog is a way for anyone  to receive the press releases via 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.  TAGGology 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; Secretary (Vacant); Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; 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