[UVTAGG] LOCATION CHANGE FOR MEETING TOMORROW 2012-05-12
Due to a funeral in our usual meeting place tomorrow's UVTAGG meeting, 9 am - noon, 12 May 2012, will be at the EDGEWOOD / RIVERSIDE LDS Chapel, 3511 North 180 East, Provo, Utah in the Provo "River Bottoms" behind the Jamestown shopping plaza on the east side of University Avenue. This is where we met during 2009 while the "Red Chapel" was being renovated. You get to it by turning east from University Avenue at 3700 North ("Will's Pit Stop") and then south on 180 East. The map on our website http://uvtagg.org.org includes this area, but this temporary meeting location is NOT marked on it.
As in the press release sent out last week, we will first watch the Provo City Center Temple Groundbreaking Ceremony which is being broadcast on the Internet starting at 9 am. Our opening exercises and classes will follow. Currently planned classes are:
(1) Personalized Help, including information for new Family History Consultants, by Don Engstrom
(2) Are There Germans In Your Past? Internet Resources to Assist You, by Laurie Castillo
(3) Evernote and Other Free Transcription Helps for Documents and Audio, by Don and Diane Snow
(4) Everything Mac for Genealogy, by Ron Snowden
(5) DVD of last month's main presentation: Finding Your Family in the 1940 US Census, by Stephen Ehat
(6) Ancestral Quest, by Gaylon Findlay
(7) Legacy, by Dean Bennett
(8) RootsMagic, by Diana Olsen
Friday, May 11, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
[UVTAGG] Press release for meeting on Saturday 12 May 2012
[UVTAGG] Press release for meeting on Saturday 12 May 2012
03 May 2012
Journalists, please run this as a news item and/or in your calendar of events. Ward newsletter editors, please include parts of the first two paragraphs, and mention that there are classes for everyone. Email me, if you need further information. Thanks.
Don Snow
UTAH VALLEY TECHNOLOGY AND GENEALOGY GROUP MEETING (UVTAGG)
The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group - UVTAGG (formerly the Utah Valley PAF Users Group - UVPAFUG) will be on Saturday, 12 May 2012, from 9 am to noon in the LDS "Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo. Information about the Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on their website http://uvtagg.org and the press releases are at http://blog.uvtagg.org .
In place of a main presentation for this meeting we will watch the Provo Tabernacle Temple Groundbreaking ceremony which will start at 9 am and will be broadcast to the building from downtown Provo. Speakers will include Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the LDS Church's Quorum of the 12 Apostles and Past President of Brigham Young University. The Church's press release about the Groundbreaking is at http://www.lds.org/church/events/church-announces-groundbreaking-for-provo-city-center-temple?lang=eng .
Following the groundbreaking ceremony, UVTAGG will have its opening exercises and then divide for classes. As always, there will be something about family history and technology for everyone at any level of expertise. The teachers and classes presently scheduled for this meeting are: (1) Are There Germans In Your Past? Internet Resources to Assist You, by Laurie Castillo; (2) Evernote and Freeware Transcription Helps for Documents and Audio, by Don and Diane Snow; (3) Personalized Help, by Don Engstrom; (4) Video of last month's main presentation: Finding Your Family in the 1940 US Census, by Stephen Ehat; (5) Everything MAC for Genealogy, by Ron Snowden; (6) Ancestral Quest, by Gaylon Findlay; (7) Legacy, by Dean Bennett; and (8) RootsMagic, by Diana Olsen.
All meetings of the Group are open to the public whether members of the Group or not. The Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually 100-125 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays. The officers are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Liz Kennington, Newsletter Editor; Renee Zamora, Secretary; Kay Baker, Gerry Eliason, Don Engstrom, and Rayanne Melick working with finances and membership; and Bruce Merrill and Marie Andersen working with the DVD Library. Several of these will be there to answer questions, help with membership, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter TAGGology, and check out DVDs of past presentations and classes to members of the group. Information about the Group, presentations, classes, and class notes can be found at the websites mentioned above. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org (801-225-6106) or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at laurie@everythingisrelative.net, or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu.
Don Snow, 2nd VP of Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group (UVTAGG)
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Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah - snowd@math.byu.edu
03 May 2012
Journalists, please run this as a news item and/or in your calendar of events. Ward newsletter editors, please include parts of the first two paragraphs, and mention that there are classes for everyone. Email me, if you need further information. Thanks.
Don Snow
UTAH VALLEY TECHNOLOGY AND GENEALOGY GROUP MEETING (UVTAGG)
The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group - UVTAGG (formerly the Utah Valley PAF Users Group - UVPAFUG) will be on Saturday, 12 May 2012, from 9 am to noon in the LDS "Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo. Information about the Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on their website http://uvtagg.org and the press releases are at http://blog.uvtagg.org .
In place of a main presentation for this meeting we will watch the Provo Tabernacle Temple Groundbreaking ceremony which will start at 9 am and will be broadcast to the building from downtown Provo. Speakers will include Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the LDS Church's Quorum of the 12 Apostles and Past President of Brigham Young University. The Church's press release about the Groundbreaking is at http://www.lds.org/church/events/church-announces-groundbreaking-for-provo-city-center-temple?lang=eng .
Following the groundbreaking ceremony, UVTAGG will have its opening exercises and then divide for classes. As always, there will be something about family history and technology for everyone at any level of expertise. The teachers and classes presently scheduled for this meeting are: (1) Are There Germans In Your Past? Internet Resources to Assist You, by Laurie Castillo; (2) Evernote and Freeware Transcription Helps for Documents and Audio, by Don and Diane Snow; (3) Personalized Help, by Don Engstrom; (4) Video of last month's main presentation: Finding Your Family in the 1940 US Census, by Stephen Ehat; (5) Everything MAC for Genealogy, by Ron Snowden; (6) Ancestral Quest, by Gaylon Findlay; (7) Legacy, by Dean Bennett; and (8) RootsMagic, by Diana Olsen.
All meetings of the Group are open to the public whether members of the Group or not. The Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually 100-125 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays. The officers are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Liz Kennington, Newsletter Editor; Renee Zamora, Secretary; Kay Baker, Gerry Eliason, Don Engstrom, and Rayanne Melick working with finances and membership; and Bruce Merrill and Marie Andersen working with the DVD Library. Several of these will be there to answer questions, help with membership, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter TAGGology, and check out DVDs of past presentations and classes to members of the group. Information about the Group, presentations, classes, and class notes can be found at the websites mentioned above. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org (801-225-6106) or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at laurie@everythingisrelative.net, or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu.
Don Snow, 2nd VP of Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group (UVTAGG)
================
Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah - snowd@math.byu.edu
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
[UVTAGG] Press release for meeting on Saturday 14 Apr 2012
03 Apr 2012
Journalists, please run this as a news item and/or in your calendar of events. Ward newsletter editors, please include parts of the first two paragraphs, and mention that there are classes for everyone. Email me, if you need further information. Thanks.
Don Snow
UTAH VALLEY TECHNOLOGY AND GENEALOGY GROUP MEETING (UVTAGG)
The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group - UVTAGG (Formerly the Utah Valley PAF Users Group - UVPAFUG) will be on Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, from 9 am to noon in the LDS "Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo. Information about the Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on their website http://uvtagg.org and the press releases are at http://blog.uvtagg.org .
The main presentation for this meeting will be by Stephen Ehat on FIND ALL YOUR RELATIVES IN THE 1940 U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS. The 1940 US Federal Census was released this week (2 Apr 2012) and digital images are now posted on several sites including the National Archives at http://1940census.archives.gov/ . Several organizations are coordinating efforts to index the entire census. These include FamilySearch Indexing and everyone is encouraged to sign up at https://www.familysearch.org/1940census/ to help. It will take several months to complete the entire index. The presentation at the UVTAGG meeting this month will help people get into the census before it is indexed. Small towns, of course, will be pretty easy; large cities will take more effort, but can still be done, as Steve Ehat will show. Stephen Kent Ehat was born in San Francisco in 1951. Baptized a Latter-day Saint as a convert at age 10, he first attempted to do genealogical research at age 11. He knew too little, but at age 17, when he began studies at BYU, he successfully began a lifetime of family history research and discovery. He has served as a Records Examiner (Remember those?), as a Stake Extraction Director (back in the day when that opportunity first existed), and recently as the Director of a six-stake Family History Center serving Orem and Lindon. He has made a number of presentations at recent BYU Family History Conferences and at the BYU Family History Center Sunday classes and is constantly helping people with their research. He has been to Italy twice for family history research on his own Italian line that arrived in San Francisco 45 years before the earthquake and fire in 1906. He is a California attorney who lives with his wife, Jeanine, in Lindon, Utah, and they have five sons and thirteen -- now almost 14 -- grandchildren.
Following the main presentation there will be several classes about family history and technology with something for everyone at any level of expertise. The teachers and classes presently scheduled for this meeting are: (1) Are Your Ancestors Frozen in Time?, by Claire Brisson-Banks; (2) "Where Did That File Go?" - Understanding and Organizing Computer Files, by Susan Maxwell; (3) Analyzing Census Records, by Stephen Ehat; (4) Personal Help with Family History, by Don Engstrom and Finn Hansen; (5) Video of last month's main presentation: Increasing Productivity on FamilySearch with Sharing Time, by Andrea Schnakenburg; (6) Everything Mac for Genealogy, by Ron Snowden; (7) RootsMagic, by Rene Zamora; (8) Ancestral Quest, by Paul Johnson; and (9) Legacy, by Joel Graham.
All meetings of the Group are open to the public whether members of the Group or not. The Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually 100-125 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays. The officers are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Liz Kennington, Newsletter Editor; Renee Zamora, Secretary; Kay Baker, Gerry Eliason, Don Engstrom, and Rayanne Melick working with finances and membership; and Bruce Merrill and Marie Andersen working with the DVD Library. Several of these will be there to answer questions, help with membership, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter TAGGology, and check out DVDs of past presentations and classes to members of the group. Ancestral QuestInformation about the Group, presentations, classes, and class notes can be found at the websites mentioned above. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org (801-225-6106) or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at laurie@everythingisrelative.net, or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu.
Don Snow, 2nd VP of Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group (UVTAGG)
================
Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah - snowd@math.byu.edu
03 Apr 2012
Journalists, please run this as a news item and/or in your calendar of events. Ward newsletter editors, please include parts of the first two paragraphs, and mention that there are classes for everyone. Email me, if you need further information. Thanks.
Don Snow
UTAH VALLEY TECHNOLOGY AND GENEALOGY GROUP MEETING (UVTAGG)
The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group - UVTAGG (Formerly the Utah Valley PAF Users Group - UVPAFUG) will be on Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, from 9 am to noon in the LDS "Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo. Information about the Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on their website http://uvtagg.org and the press releases are at http://blog.uvtagg.org .
The main presentation for this meeting will be by Stephen Ehat on FIND ALL YOUR RELATIVES IN THE 1940 U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS. The 1940 US Federal Census was released this week (2 Apr 2012) and digital images are now posted on several sites including the National Archives at http://1940census.archives.gov/ . Several organizations are coordinating efforts to index the entire census. These include FamilySearch Indexing and everyone is encouraged to sign up at https://www.familysearch.org/1940census/ to help. It will take several months to complete the entire index. The presentation at the UVTAGG meeting this month will help people get into the census before it is indexed. Small towns, of course, will be pretty easy; large cities will take more effort, but can still be done, as Steve Ehat will show. Stephen Kent Ehat was born in San Francisco in 1951. Baptized a Latter-day Saint as a convert at age 10, he first attempted to do genealogical research at age 11. He knew too little, but at age 17, when he began studies at BYU, he successfully began a lifetime of family history research and discovery. He has served as a Records Examiner (Remember those?), as a Stake Extraction Director (back in the day when that opportunity first existed), and recently as the Director of a six-stake Family History Center serving Orem and Lindon. He has made a number of presentations at recent BYU Family History Conferences and at the BYU Family History Center Sunday classes and is constantly helping people with their research. He has been to Italy twice for family history research on his own Italian line that arrived in San Francisco 45 years before the earthquake and fire in 1906. He is a California attorney who lives with his wife, Jeanine, in Lindon, Utah, and they have five sons and thirteen -- now almost 14 -- grandchildren.
Following the main presentation there will be several classes about family history and technology with something for everyone at any level of expertise. The teachers and classes presently scheduled for this meeting are: (1) Are Your Ancestors Frozen in Time?, by Claire Brisson-Banks; (2) "Where Did That File Go?" - Understanding and Organizing Computer Files, by Susan Maxwell; (3) Analyzing Census Records, by Stephen Ehat; (4) Personal Help with Family History, by Don Engstrom and Finn Hansen; (5) Video of last month's main presentation: Increasing Productivity on FamilySearch with Sharing Time, by Andrea Schnakenburg; (6) Everything Mac for Genealogy, by Ron Snowden; (7) RootsMagic, by Rene Zamora; (8) Ancestral Quest, by Paul Johnson; and (9) Legacy, by Joel Graham.
All meetings of the Group are open to the public whether members of the Group or not. The Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually 100-125 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays. The officers are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Liz Kennington, Newsletter Editor; Renee Zamora, Secretary; Kay Baker, Gerry Eliason, Don Engstrom, and Rayanne Melick working with finances and membership; and Bruce Merrill and Marie Andersen working with the DVD Library. Several of these will be there to answer questions, help with membership, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter TAGGology, and check out DVDs of past presentations and classes to members of the group. Ancestral QuestInformation about the Group, presentations, classes, and class notes can be found at the websites mentioned above. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org (801-225-6106) or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at laurie@everythingisrelative.net, or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu.
Don Snow, 2nd VP of Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group (UVTAGG)
================
Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah - snowd@math.byu.edu
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