9 am
to noon in the LDS "Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East),
Provo.
This is the regular second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting.
Information about the Group, meeting location, main presentations,
classes, and class notes are available on their website http://uvtagg.org
The main
presentation this month at UVTAGG will be by Donald R. Snow and his
daughter, Linda Snow Westover, on THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE:
FREEWARE FOR FAMILY HISTORY. There are many free or inexpensive
computer programs that are very helpful for family history. This
presentation will discuss several of these, including:
- EVERYTHING - a free program that finds files on your computer quickly and easily;
- Q-DIR - a computer utility program that helps move, rename, delete, or copy programs in various ways;
- PDF-XCHANGE EDITOR - a freeware program that reads and edits pdf's and does OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on them;
- GOOGLE DOCS which has office programs for text, presentations, and spreadsheets. is online so you can work on your files wherever you can get to the Internet, and allows collaboration with others on documents; and
- OURTIMELINES.COM - an free online database that allows you to form timelines of world events occurring during the lifetime of an individual.
The notes for the class are posted on http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html
, along with a set of Freeware Supplementary Notes which give
information on more than 60 free computer programs that are helpful in
things like genealogy and databases, text and office programs, graphics,
sound, and general computer utilities.
Don Snow is a Californian by
birth with Snow ancestors from Southern Utah. After retiring from the
BYU Math Faculty, he and his recently deceased wife, Diane, served four
FH missions, including 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 Family History Centre in the Hyde Park Chapel.
Don has been a VP of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group
since the 1990's and is a frequent speaker at FH venues. He has 6
children and 30 grandchildren. Linda Snow Westover is Don Snow's
daughter and has been a family history enthusiast for the past 25 years.
Ward family history consultant and associate director of the Lindon
(Utah) Family History Center, her friends call her the ghost-whisperer.
She enjoys helping others and traveling to research her family and is
also a frequent speaker at many FH venues. Linda works in the
Registrar’s Office at BYU and has 5 children and 6 grandchildren.
After the main presentation the following classes are scheduled. See our website for last minute changes and additions.
- Freeware (Continuation), by Don Snow and Linda Westover
- Facebook Your Genealogy!, by Sue Maxwell
- Fast Accurate Research Using FamilySearch and Wiki, by Van Celaya
- Ask An Expert (Personal Help), by Don Engstrom & Finn Hansen
- Video of last month's main presentation, Copyright Law for Genealogists, by James Tanner
- Ancestral Quest, by Gaylon Findlay
- RootsMagic, by Bruce Buzbee
Notice that
there is something for everyone no matter what their level of family
history expertise. This includes youth, those just getting interested in
genealogy, long-time genealogists, and ward family history consultants.
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 about
100 attending the monthly meetings.
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