UVTAGG Press Release: Online Meeting Saturday Morning 9 May 2026: LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on CAN I RESEARCH FROM HOME USING THE ONLINE BYU RESOURCES?
2026-05-05
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 9 May 2026 on Zoom and Facebook
10 am - 11 am MDT:
LAURIE WERNER CASTILLO on CAN I RESEARCH FROM HOME USING THE ONLINE BYU RESOURCES?
Details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 9 May 2026 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 CAN I RESEARCH FROM HOME USING THE ONLINE BYU RESOURCES?
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:
There are many resources at the BYU Library Family History Center. The FHC is housed in the Main BYU Library, the Harold B. Lee Library or HBLL. The HBLL itself provides numerous digital research helps that may also assist you in your research. I am constantly finding something new.
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. Her interests include: history, mystery, geography and genetics. Add those up and you have family history.
ABOUT THE GROUP:
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 36th year and was first called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group. The blog provides a link 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 newsletter, TAGGology, via email 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; Marilyn Thomsen, 2nd VP; Secretary (vacant); Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, TAGGology Newsletter Editor (Vacant); Bonnie Dimond, Treasurer; Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; Chris Stevenson, Caleb Clayson, Jerry Castillo, and Dawn Brimhall, Broadcast and Website Specialists. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at uvtagginfo@gmail.com (801-
Gerhard Ruf
President, UVTAGG
