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, 09 Jun 2012, from 9 am to noon in the LDS
"Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo.
The main presentation this month will be by Don and Diane Snow on YOUR PERSONAL
GENEALOGY LIBRARY: FAMILY HISTORY BOOKS ONLINE. The Snows will show
information about family history books online, how to find them, what formats
they are in, and how to use them. They will show various organizations
that are scanning and posting FH books such as the Family History Library,
Google, Internet Archive, and others. There are already thousands of FH
books online and most are free to download.
Donald R. and Diane M. Snow
are both Californians with Utah roots; Don's ancestors are the Snows from
Southern Utah and Diane's are the Manwarings from Northern Utah. They are
both retired from BYU where Don taught Mathematics and Diane taught Humanities.
Since retiring from BYU, they have been on four Family History missions for the
LDS Church. One of these was as the Directors of the New York Family
History Center in Manhattan and another was serving in the London Family
History Center in the Hyde Park Chapel. They have been involved with
family history for many years and Don has been a Vice President of the Utah
Valley Technology and Genealogy Group since the 1990's. They are frequent
speakers at genealogy and family history conferences and the details of their
talks and schedules are at
http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html . They have 6 children, 30
grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren and are snowbirds spending half the
year in Provo and half in St. George.
Following the main presentation will be the class period and, 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) FamilySearch Family Tree, by Merlin Kitchen;
(2) Q&A, by Don and Diane Snow;
(3) Video of a past
presentation or class - Your Choice;
(4) Personal Help, by DonEngstrom & Finn Hansen;
(5) MAC Projects Discussed and
Reviewed, by Ron Snowden;
(6) RootsMagic, by Sue Maxwell;
(7)
Legacy, by Dean Bennett; and
(8) Ancestral Quest (teacher to be
announced).
All meetings of UVTAGG 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.
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