UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 11 Oct 2025: MARILYN THOMSEN on AI OPENS COURT RECORDS

UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 11 Oct 2025:  MARILYN THOMSEN on AI OPENS COURT RECORDS

2025-10-05

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 11 Oct 2025 on Zoom and Facebook

10 am - 11 am MDT:  MARILYN THOMSEN on AI OPENS COURT RECORDS

Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 13 Sep 2025 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 AI OPENS COURT RECORDS

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:

AI has opened court records like never before. The Full-Text Search at FamilySearch locates family in court, probate, will, guardianship, deed and land records. The Summarize feature cuts through legal jargon. This class will talk about how to recognize in what part of the court process these documents are created, how to attach the sources to the Family Tree and use the AI generated transcripts in research logs and research plans.

ABOUT MARILYN THOMSEN:

Marilyn Thomsen served as 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 the 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.

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 35th year and was first called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group. On the blog is a way for anyone to receive the press releases via email. The public is invited to watch the presentations on the UVTAGG Facebook page.  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. Request a free sample copy of the Newsletter by emailing to uvtagginfo@gmail.com.

Officers of UVTAGG are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; 2nd VP (Vacant); Beccy Martin, Secretary; Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, TAGGology Newsletter Editor (Vacant); Treasurer (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; 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.

Gerhard Ruf, President

UVTAGG

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