[UVTAGG] - Press Release - Free online meeting, Sat, 08 May 2021, 10 am-Noon MDT, ANN TANNER

 [UVTAGG] - Press Release - Free online meeting, Sat, 08 May 2021, 10 am-Noon MDT,  ANN TANNER

2021-05-02

Journalists and newsletter editors, please include this where you can.  These two versions of the press release are posted on the UVTAGG Press Release blog at  http://blog.uvtagg.org/ and more infor is on the UVTAGG home page at   https://www.uvtagg.org  . Or you can conact me.  Thanks.

Don Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu 

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 08 May 2021 - Free online on Facebook and Zoom

10:05-11:00 am MDT -- ANN TANNER on IMPROVING RESEARCH SKILLS FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS WITH THE FAMILY HISTORY GUIDE

11:10-12:00 Noon MDT -- CAROL HILL on THE INS AND OUTS OF FIND-A-GRAVE

Details and link for watching are at https://www.uvtagg.org  and on the UVTAGG Facebook page

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UVTAGG Meeting (Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group) Saturday, 08 May 2021, 10:00am-Noon MDT - Free online on Facebook and Zoom

10:05-11:00 am MDT -- ANN TANNER on IMPROVING RESEARCH SKILLS FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS WITH THE FAMILY HISTORY GUIDE

11:10-12:00 Noon MST -- CAROL HILL on THE INS AND OUTS OF FIND-A-GRAVE

DESCRIPTION OF MAIN PRESENTATION:  The Family History Guide can be likened to an iceberg - most of it may not be obvious at first glance. There are menus, pictures and instructions, but when you take time to explore the website you will find thousands of articles and videos to expand your research skills, for yourself or to help others as a Consultant. Whether you need to learn new skills or need an idea of where to look next, or you have someone who needs help with research in Albania or any other location, learn how and why The Family History Guide should be your "go-to" site. Ann Tanner and her husband, James Tanner, teach family history classes and webinars at the BYU Family History Library in Provo, Utah. They lived in Arizona for many years before moving to Provo. They recently returned from a Family History Mission to Maryland where they were microfilming old records from the Maryland State Archives for FamilySearch.

For more details see the UVTAGG webpage -- https://www.uvtagg.org/ . These presentations can be viewed by anyone on Facebook by going to the UVTAGG Facebook Page. Members of UVTAGG can watch on Zoom, which is more interactive, by going to https://zoom.us/j/909-878-8837 and waiting while your UVTAGG membership is verified. The broadcasts will be online only due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. Many of the presentations and classes for the past couple of months are on Facebook for anyone to watch. We hope to be able to start in-person meetings, as well as on Zoom and Facebook, within the next few months.

All meetings of the Group are open to the public with the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The blog of press releases is at  http://blog.uvtagg.org/ and you can subscribe there to receive them by email.  Besides being able to watch on ZOOM, members of the Group ($15/year) receive the  monthly email newsletter TAGGology and have access to the more than 500 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 on the UVTAGG website.  Officers of UVTAGG are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Rick Klemetson, Membership Officer; Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Finance Officer; Bruce Merrill and Jackson Andersen, Video and Librarians; Eileen Phelps, Special Projects Coordinator; Carol Hill, FamilySearch Facebook Coordinator; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Rick Wightman, Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, and Jerry Castilloroadcast Specialists and Webmasters.  The Group is in its 31st year.  For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org  (801-225-6106), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at gengal@comcast.net , or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu .

Don Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .

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[UVTAGG] - Press Release and Blog - Free online meeting, Sat 10 Apr 2021, 10 am-Noon MDT, DONALD R. SNOW

[UVTAGG] - Press Release and Blog - Free online meeting, Sat 10 Apr 2021, 10 am-Noon MDT, DONALD R. SNOW

2021-04-07

Journalists and newsletter editors, please include this where you can.  These two versions of the press release are posted on the UVTAGG Press Release blog at  http://blog.uvtagg.org/ and more infor is on the UVTAGG home page at   https://www.uvtagg.org  . Or you can conact me.  Thanks.

Don Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu 

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 10 Apr 2021 - Free online on Facebook and Zoom

10:05-11:00 am MDT -- THE ROOTSTECH CONNECT 2021 WEBSITE AND OPEN DISCUSSION by DONALD R. SNOW

11:10-12:00 Noon MDT -- ARE YOU GETTING THE MOST OUT OF FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS? by SANDRA BRIMHALL and WENDY BRIMHALL

Details and link for watching are at https://www.uvtagg.org  and on the UVTAGG Facebook page

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UVTAGG Meeting (Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group) Saturday, 13 Mar 2021, 10:00am-Noon MST - Free online on Facebook and Zoom

10:05-11:00 am MSd -- THE ROOTSTECH 2021 WEBSITE AND OPEN DISCUSSION by DONALD R. SNOW

DESCRIPTION: 

11:10-12:00 Noon MST -- ARE YOU GETTING THE MOST OUT OF FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS? by SANDRA BRIHAMLL AND WENDY BRIMHALL

DESCRIPTION:  RootsTech Connect 2021 was a virtual (online) family history conference sponsored by FamilySearch in Feb 2021 and was the first RootsTech conference to be entirely virtual and free.  It had 1,500 sessions from 250 presenters in several languages and more than 1.2 million attendees from 242 countries.  The videos of all keynotes and classes will be online and free for the next year and form a major source of famly history help, instruction, and inspiration. This class will discuss the website and how to use it, followed by questions and comments from group members.

DONALD R. SNOW: Don is a Californian by birth, with Snow ancestors from Southern Utah.  He is a retired Professor of Mathematics from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and has lived in several foreign countries, both for mathematics and church assignments.  After retiring from the BYU Math Faculty, he and his now deceased wife Diane Snow, who taught Humanities at BYU, served four Family History missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  These included being Directors of the New York Family History Center in Manhattan, in the Illinois Nauvoo Mission on a FH project http://earlylds.com, and in the London England Family History Centre in the Hyde Park Chapel.  Don served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Utah Genealogical Association, where he was the Host of the online UGA Virtual Chapter Meetings, and has been a VP of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group since the early 1990's.  He is a frequent speaker at FH venues and loves teaching and playing his accordion.  He has 6 children and 30 grandchildren.  His FH class schedule and notes are posted on his webpage at https://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html

For more details see the UVTAGG webpage -- https://www.uvtagg.org/ . These presentations can be viewed by anyone on Facebook by going to the UVTAGG Facebook Page. Members of UVTAGG can watch on Zoom, which is more interactive, by going to https://zoom.us/j/909-878-8837 and waiting while your UVTAGG membership is verified. The broadcasts will be online only and NOT in-person due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic.

All meetings of the Group are open to the public with the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The blog and press releases are at  http://blog.uvtagg.org/ and you can subscribe there to receive them by email.  Besides being able to watch on ZOOM, members of the Group ($15/year) receive the  monthly email newsletter TAGGology and access to the more than 500 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 on the UVTAGG website.  Officers of UVTAGG are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Don Engstrom, Secretary and Membership Officer; Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Finance Officer; Bruce Merrill and Jackson Andersen, Video and Librarians; Eileen Phelps, Special Projects Coordinator; Carol Hill, FamilySearch Facebook Coordinator; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Rick Wightman, Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, Jerry Castillo, and Rick Klemetson, Broadcast Specialists and Webmasters.  The Group is in its 31st year.  For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org  (801-225-6106), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at gengal@comcast.net , or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu .

Don Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .

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[UVTAGG] - Press Release and Blog - online meeting, Sat 13 Mar 2021, 10 am-Noon MST, PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG

  [UVTAGG] - Press Release and Blog - online meeting, Sat 13 Mar 2021, 10 am-Noon MST, PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG

2021-03-09

Journalists and newsletter editors, please include this where you can.  These two versions of the press release are posted on the UVTAGG Press Release blog at  http://blog.uvtagg.org/ and more infor is on the UVTAGG home page at   https://www.uvtagg.org  . Or you can conact me.  Thanks.

Don Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu 

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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 13 Mar 2021 - Free online on Facebook and Zoom

10:05-11:00 am MST -- SUBSTITUTES FOR VITAL RECORDS by PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG

11:10-12:00 Noon MST -- TICKED OFF!  THOSE PESKY PRE-1850 CENSUS TIC MARKS by PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG

Details and link for watching are at https://www.uvtagg.org  and on the UVTAGG Facebook page

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UVTAGG Meeting (Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group) Saturday, 13 Mar 2021, 10:00am-Noon MST - Free online on Facebook and Zoom

10:05-11:00 am MST -- SUBSTITUTES FOR VITAL RECORDS by PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG

DESCRIPTION:  All is not lost when we learn that the county courthouse has burned.  War and natural disasters have taken their toll on many of our nation’s county courthouses.  We'll look at some helpful sources that may still exist.

11:10-12:00 Noon MST -- TICKED OFF!  THOSE PESKY PRE-1850 CENSUS TIC MARKS by PEGGY LAURITZEN, AG

PEGGY CLEMENS LAURITZEN has been an Accredited Genealogist (AG) for nearly twenty-five years, and has been involved in genealogy research her entire life. She is the author of several Legacy QuickGuides on Appalachia, an instructor at Ancestry Academy and Family Tree University, an instructor at several GRIP and SLIG courses, and a columnist for Reminisce Magazine. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Laura G. Prescott Award for Exemplary Service to Professional Genealogy and became a Fellow of the Ohio Genealogical Society. She is a former researcher at Ancestry ProGenealogists. She and her husband are Directors of the Family History Center in Mansfield, Ohio. More information about her is on her web site and ICAPGen profile.

These presentations can be viewed by anyone on Facebook by going to the UVTAGG Facebook Page. Members of UVTAGG can watch on Zoom, which is more interactive, by going to https://zoom.us/j/909-878-8837 and waiting while your UVTAGG membership is verified. The broadcasts will be online only and NOT in-person due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic.

All meetings of the Group are open to the public with the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history.  The blog and press releases are at  http://blog.uvtagg.org/ and you can subscribe there to receive them by email.  Besides being able to watch on ZOOM, members of the Group ($15/year) receive the  monthly email newsletter TAGGology and access to the more than 500 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 on the UVTAGG website.  Officers of UVTAGG are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Don Engstrom, Secretary and Membership Officer; Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Finance Officer; Bruce Merrill and Jackson Andersen, Video and Librarians; Eileen Phelps, Special Projects Coordinator; Carol Hill, FamilySearch Facebook Coordinator; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Rick Wightman, Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, Jerry Castillo, and Rick Klemetson, Broadcast Specialists and Webmasters.  The Group is in its 31st year.  For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org  (801-225-6106), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at gengal@comcast.net , or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu .

Don Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .

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