UVTAGG - Press Release: Online Mtg, 13 Apr 2024, 10-12 Noon MDT, ROBERT GIVENS ON NEW FEATURES IN FAMILYSEARCH
2024-04-04
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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
