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Some Things I Learned at RootsTech 2013, Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah, 21-23 Mar 2013
Some Things I Learned at FH Expo 2013, St. George, Utah, 22-23 Feb 2013  =====================================================================================
         CLASSES COMING UP
  1. Sat 2013-06-15 11:30-12:30 PM -- Organizing and Presenting Your Photos:  Picasa and Other Freeware -- Riverton FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah
  2. Wed 2013-07-31 2:30-3:45 -- The 3 C's of English Research: Civil Registration, Census, and Church Records -- BYU 2013 Conference on Genealogy and Family History, 2013-07-30 to 2013-08-02
  3. Sat 2013-08-24 -- Preserving and Presenting Your Family History -- Keynote Address at 4th Annual One World One Family Conference, Brampton (Toronto), Ontario, Canada
  4. Sat 2013-08-24 -- Navigating and Including Sources in FamilySearch Family Tree -- Workshop at 4th Annual One World One Family Conference, Brampton (Toronto), Ontario, Canada
  5. Sat 2013-08-24 -- Some Good and Free Family History Websites -- Workshop at 4th Annual One World One Family Conference, Brampton (Toronto), Ontario, Canada
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    PAST CLASSES IN 2013
  6. Wed 2013-01-02 1-2:30 PM -- Organizing and Presenting Your Photos:  Picasa and Other Freeware -- FH Update Class, St. George
  7. Wed 2013-01-16 1-2:30 PM -- Findagrave, Billion Graves, and Other Death Records -- FH Update Class, St. George
  8. Sat 2013-01-19 10 am-noon -- FamilySearch Family Tree: The Future of New FamilySearch -- Q&A -- St. George East Stake Center Relief Society Room
  9. Wed 2013-02-06 1-2:30 PM -- Letter Collections in Family History Using Erastus Snow's Family Letters As An Example -- Link to Personal Letters of the Erastus Snow Family -- FH Update Class, St. George
  10. Wed 2013-02-20 1-2:30 PM -- Sources:  Documentation From Start to Finish -- FH Update Class, St. George
  11. Fri 2013-02-22 7:20 PM -- Evernote, PhraseExpress, and ResophNotes: Freeware Note Programs to Help With Your Family History -- at Family History Expo - St. George, Utah
  12. Sat 2013-02-23 11:20 am -- Letter Collections in Family History Using Erastus Snow's Family Letters As An Example -- Link to Personal Letters of the Erastus Snow Family -- Presentation at Family History Expo - St. George, Utah
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  13. Wed 2013-03-06 1-2:30 PM -- FamilySearch Historical Records -- FH Update Class, St. George
  14. Thu 2013-03-21 1:45-2:45 PM -- Organizing and Presenting Your Photos: Picasa and Other Freeware -- One-Page Summary -- at RootsTech 2013, Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah
  15. Wed 2013-03-27 1-2:30 PM -- FamilySearch Catalog and Research Wiki -- FH Update Class, St. George
  16. Tues 2013-04-09 1-2:30 PM -- Your Personal Genealogy Library: Family History Books Online -- FH Update Class, St. George
  17. Sat 2013-04-20 10-11:30 am -- Some Things I Learned At RootsTech 2013, Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah, 21-23 Mar 2013 -- panel discussion at DIG (Dixie Internet Genealogy) at St. George FamilySearch Library
  18. Tues 2013-04-23 1-2:30 PM -- Genealogy a la Google -- FH Update Class, St. George
    19. ======================================================================================
    2012
  19. Some Things I Learned at RootsTech 2012, 02-04 Feb 2012, Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah
  20. Sat 2012-02-18  10 am -- Erastus Snow's Life and Families From Their Personal Letters -- at Southern Utah Family History and Genealogy Group Meeting (SUFHGG), St. George East Stake Center, 449 South 300 East, St. George, Utah (across the street east of the St. George Temple)
  21. Sat 2012-05-12  9 am-noon -- Evernote and Other Free Transcription Helps For Documents and Audio -- at UVTAGG Meeting, 4050 North Timpview Dr., Provo, Utah 
  22. Sat 2012-05-19  10 am-noon -- FreeBMD: The Free Online Civil Registration Index for England and Wales -- at Riverton FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah
  23. Wed 2012-06-06  1-2:30 PM -- FamilySearch Family Tree: The Future of New FamilySearch -- Family History Update Class, Provo
  24. Sat 2012-06-09  9 am-noon -- Your Personal Genealogy library: Family History Books Online -- at UVTAGG Meeting, 4050 North Timpview Dr., Provo, Utah 
  25. Sat 2012-06-16  10 am-noon -- Finding Descendants of Your Ancestors -- at Riverton FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah
  26. Wed 2012-06-20  1-2:30 PM -- Your Personal Genealogy Library: Family History Books Online -- at Family History Update Class, Provo
  27. Tues 2012-07-03  1-2:30 PM -- HeritageQuest Online: Free Family History Data at Home With Your Library Card -- at Family History Update Class, Provo
  28. Wed 2012-07-18  1-2:30 PM -- US and LDS Immigration -- Family History Update Class, Provo
  29. Wed 2012-08-01  1-2:30 PM -- Digitizing and Transcribing Audio Files -- Family History Update Class, Provo
  30. Thu 2012-08-02  11 am-noon -- Your Personal Genealogy Library: Family History Books Online -- at BYU 2012 Conference on Family History and Genealogy, 31 Jul - 3 Aug 2012, Provo, Utah -- Summary Handout
  31. Fri 2012-08-03  11 am-noon -- The Best Things in Life are Free: Freeware for Family History -- at BYU 2012 Conference on Family History and Genealogy, 31 Jul - 3 Aug 2012, Provo, Utah-- Summary Handout
  32. Some Things I Learned at the BYU FH and Genealogy Conference, 31 Jul-03 Aug 2012, BYU, Provo, Utah
  33. Wed 2012-08-15  1-2:30 PM -- Freeware for Family History -- at Family History Update Class, Provo
  34. Wed 2012-09-05  1-2:30 PM -- Picasa and Photo FilmStrip to Organize and Present Your Photos -- Family History Update Class, Provo
  35. Sat 2012-09-15  10 am-noon -- What To Do with a Letter Collection Using Erastus Snow's Family Letters as an Illustration -- at Riverton FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah -- Personal Letters of the Erastus Snow Family
  36. Sun 2012-09-16  5:30 PM -- FamilySearch Family Tree: The Future of New FamilySearch -- at Edgemont and Edgemont North Stakes FHC Staff Meeting, 4300 North Canyon Road, Provo, Utah
  37. Wed 2012-09-19  1-2:30 PM -- Genealogy a la Google -- Family History Update Class, Provo
  38. Wed 2012-10-03  1-2:30 PM -- Newspapers in Family History -- Family History Update Class, Provo
  39. Wed 2012-12-19 1-2:30 PM -- FamilySearch Family Tree: The Future of New FamilySearch -- FH Update Class, St. George
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    2011-2012 -- FAMILY HISTORY UPDATE SERIES
                                 ST. GEORGE UTAH MORNINGSIDE STAKE
    1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 1-2:30 PM, Morningside Stake Center, River Road and 9th South, St. George, Utah - Relief Society Room (east end of building)
    Don and Diane Snow are continuing their FH Update Series of free classes through this Spring to help you become acquainted with and use some of the new family history resources. It is sponsored by the Morningside Stake, but everyone is welcome. Each class is independent and no registration is necessary. The notes will be updated and posted just before each class on //uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html and copies will be given out in class. Many other sets of FH notes are posted there too. For questions or comments, please contact the Snows at 435-673-1932 or snowd@math.byu.edu. Here is the current schedule.
  40. Wed 2011-11-02  1-2:30 PM -- Newspapers in Family History
  41. Wed 2011-11-16  1-2:30 PM -- Everything, Dropbox, and FastStone Capture - Three Freeware Programs That Make Family History Life Easier
  42. Wed 2011-12-07  1-2:30 PM -- Ancestral Quest and New FamilySearch
  43. Wed 2011-12-21                     -- No class
  44. Wed 2012-01-04  1-2:30 PM -- Your Questions (Please give us your genealogy and technology questions in advance, if possible)
  45. Wed 2012-01-18  1-2:30 PM -- Picasa and Other Freeware to Work with Your Photos
  46. Wed 2012-02-01  1-2:30 PM -- Finding Descendants of Your Ancestors
  47. Wed 2012-02-22 (4th Wed, NOT 3rd)  1-2:30 PM -- Search Tools:  Desktop and Online
  48. Wed 2012-03-07  1-2:30 PM -- HeritageQuest Online:  Free FH Data At Home With Your Library Card
  49. Wed 2012-03-21  1-2:30 PM -- Your Questions II: Another Time To Ask Your FH and Technology Questions
  50. Wed 2012-04-04  1-2:30 PM -- Evernote and Some Free Document and Audio Transcription Programs
  51. Wed 2012-04-18  1-2:30 PM -- Maps in Family History and Making Your Own
  52. Wed 2012-05-02  1-2:30 PM -- 25 of Our Favorite Websites for Family History (Last class until Fall)

    53. PAGES REFERENCED IN NOTES

  53. Don's Maps Complete

    54. OTHER CLASSES

  54. Sat 2011-01-15  10 am -- Freeware Programs for Family History -- at Southern Utah Family History and Genealogy Group Meeting (SUFHGG), St. George East Stake Center, 449 South 300 East, St. George, Utah (across the street east of the St. George Temple)
  55. Sat 2011-05-28  4:30 PM -- Erastus Snow's Life and Families From Their Personal Letters -- at Mormon History Association Meeting, St. George, Utah
  56. Sat 2011-06-11  9 am -- Forming and Analyzing a Database of Letters Using the Erastus Snow Family to Illustrate -- at UVTAGG Meeting, Provo, Utah
  57. Sat 2011-06-18  10 am -- The Lay of the Land: Online Maps for Family History -- at Riverton FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah
  58. Thur 2011-06-30 and 2011-07-07  10 am -- Using Ancestral Quest, Parts 1 and 2 -- by Diane M. Snow at Edgemont North Stake Family History Center , 4300 North Canyon Road, Provo, Utah
  59. Sat 2011-07-16  10 am -- Great Grandpa Was a Mormon: LDS and Utah Records -- at Riverton FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah
  60. Sun 2011-08-21  5:30 PM -- The Nauvoo Databank -- at Edgemont and Edgemont North Stakes FHC Staff Meeting, 4300 North Canyon Road, Provo, Utah
  61. Thur 2011-10-27  7 PM -- LDS Data and the Nauvoo Databank -- at Lindon-Shared Stakes FHC Staff Meeting, 1050 East 100 North, Lindon, Utah
  62. Sat 2011-10-08  9 am -- LDS Data and the Nauvoo Databank -- at UVTAGG Meeting, 4050 North Timpview Dr. (650 East), Provo, Utah
  63. Sat 2011-11-19  10 am -- Newspapers in Family History -- at Southern Utah Family History and Genealogy Group meeting (SUFHGG), St. George, Utah
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    2011 Winter -- FAMILY HISTORY UPDATE SERIES
                                         ST. GEORGE UTAH MORNINGSIDE STAKE
    1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 1-2:30 PM, Morningside Stake Center, Relief Society Room (east end of building), River Road and 9th South, St. George, Utah
    Don and Diane Snow are offering this free series of classes to help you keep up with available family history resources. It is sponsored by the Morningside Stake, but others are welcome. Each class is independent, so attend when you can. The notes will be updated and posted here [ //uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html ] just before each class and copies will be given out in class. For questions or comments, please contact the Snows at 435-673-1932 or snowd@math.byu.edu.
  64. Wed 2011-01-05  1-2:30 PM -- Read All About It: Newspapers in Family History -- Summary Handout
  65. Wed 2011-01-19  1-2:30 PM -- Making It Easier: New FamilySearch Affiliates
  66. Wed 2011-02-02  1-2:30 PM -- Your Online Home Library: Family History Books Online
  67. Wed 2011-02-16  1-2:30 PM -- The Best Things In Life Are Free: Freeware for Family History -- Summary Handout
  68. Wed 2011-03-02  1-2:30 PM -- Filling Out the Family: Censuses in Family History
  69. Wed 2011-03-16  1-2:30 PM -- Great Grandpa Was a Mormon: LDS and Utah Records
  70. Wed 2011-04-06  1-2:30 PM -- The Lay of the Land: Online Maps for Family History
  71. Wed 2011-04-20  1-2:30 PM -- Case Study: Getting to Know Ann Stafford Snow Condie by Applying New Tools. (Last class until the Fall)
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    NAUVOO UNIVERSITY FAMILY HISTORY CLASS
                     Nauvoo University Website , Nauvoo University (Wikipedia) , and Nauvoo University (Old Website)
  72. Tues 2010-01-12 -- Personal Histories, Journals, and The Save Our Stories (SOS) Program
  73. Tues 2010-01-19 -- Entering Data and Photos in PAF
  74. Tues 2010-01-26 -- Notes and Sources
  75. Tues 2010-02-02 -- Compiled Sources
  76. Tues 2010-02-09 -- Compiled Sources (Cont.) and Censuses 
  77. Tues 2010-02-16 -- Using Compiled Sources in Your Database and Using FastStone Capture 
  78. Tues 2010-02-23 -- Social Security Death Index and Ourtimelines.com
  79. Tues 2010-03-02 -- Setting Preferences and Printing Reports in PAF
  80. Tues 2010-03-09 -- PAF Goodies
  81. Tues 2010-03-16 -- US and Mormon Immigration 
  82. Tues 2010-03-23 -- No Class
  83. Tues 2010-03-30 -- Introduction to New FamilySearch 
  84. Tues 2010-04-06 -- New FamilySearch and Affiliate Programs 
  85. Tues 2010-04-13 -- Workshop
    86. ===================================================================================================== FAMILY HISTORY UPDATE SERIES - NAUVOO UNIVERSITY
                         Nauvoo University Website , Nauvoo University (Wikipedia) , and Nauvoo University (Old Website)
  86. Thurs 2009-11-05  7-8:30 PM -- Genealogy a la Google
  87. Thurs 2009-11-12  7-8:30 PM -- Freeware and Shareware for Family History
  88. Thurs 2009-11-19  7-8:30 PM -- Online Maps in Family History
  89. Thurs 2009-12-03  7-8:30 PM -- New FamilySearch
  90. Thurs 2010-01-14  7-8:30 PM -- Personal Histories, Journals, and the Save Our Stories (SOS) Program
  91. Thurs 2010-01-21   7-8:30 PM -- Updating Places Using Family Insight and New FamilySearch
  92. Thurs 2010-01-28  7-8:30 PM -- What's New in New FamilySearch
  93. Thurs 2010-02-04  7-8:30 PM -- New FamilySearch and Affiliate Programs I
  94. Thurs 2010-02-11  7-8:30 PM -- New FamilySearch and Affiliate Programs II
  95. Thurs 2010-02-18  7-8:30 PM -- HeritageQuest Online
  96. Thurs 2010-02-25  7-8:30 PM -- New Ways to Verify and Research Using FamilySearch
  97. Thurs 2010-03-04  7-8:30 PM -- FamilySearch Aids to Research
  98. Thurs 2010-03-11  7-8:30 PM -- I Didn't Know PAF Could Do All That!
  99. Thurs 2010-03-18  7-8:30 PM -- Newspapers in Family History
  100. Thurs 2010-03-25                     -- No Class
  101. Thurs 2010-04-01  7-8:30 PM -- Cleaning Up Your Database 
  102. Thurs 2010-04-08  7-8:30 PM -- Family History Books Online (Last class of the series)
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      FAMILY HISTORY UPDATE SERIES
                      ST. GEORGE REGIONAL FAMILY HISTORY TRAINING CENTER
                                //www.genealogynow.org/index.html            
  103. Tues  2009-02-17  2 pm -- Genealogy a la Google
  104. Mon  2009-02-23  2 pm -- HeritageQuest Online
  105. Mon  2009-03-02  2 pm -- Freeware and Shareware for Family History
  106. Mon  2009-03-09  2 pm -- No class -- Family History Training Week at SGRFHTC
  107. Mon  2009-03-16  2 pm -- I Didn't Know PAF Could Do All That!
  108. Mon  2009-03-23  2 pm -- Cleaning Up Your Database
  109. Mon  2009-03-30  2 pm -- RootsWeb and USGenWeb
  110. Mon  2009-04-06  2 pm -- Newspapers in Family History
  111. Mon  2009-03-13  2 pm -- No class -- Family History Training Week at SGRFHTC
  112. Mon  2009-04-20  2 pm -- Online Maps in Family History
  113. Mon  2009-04-27  2 pm -- What's New in Family History from the LDS Church
  114. Mon  2009-05-04  2 pm -- LDS and Utah Records
  115. Mon  2009-05-11  2 pm -- No class -- Family History Training Week at SGRFHTC
  116. Mon  2009-05-18  2 pm -- Searching the IGI and Using Batch Numbers
  117. Mon  2009-05-25  2 pm -- No class -- SGRFHTC closed for Memorial Day Holiday
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    COMPUTERS AND INTERNET GENEALOGY (See above also)
  118. Finding Grandma Through the London Family History Centre
  119. Finding GEDCOM's Containing Your Ancestors
  120. Tracing Your US Immigrant Relative
  121. Using City and Other Directories in Family History
  122. FamilySearch and Other Helps -- Glossary, Research Outlines, Helps, and Guidance, Helps for the FHLC, and other FH help websites
  123. Searching the IGI and Using Batch Numbers
  124. What's on FamilySearch.org
  125. FamilySearch.org
  126. The Family History Library Catalogue
  127. The Ancestry Website in Family History Centres
  128. Introduction to Internet Genealogy
  129. Annotated List of Helpful Family History Web Sites
  130. RootsWeb and USGenWeb
  131. GenSmarts
  132. Cleaning Up Your Database
  133. Backing Up Your Data
  134. Fun With Your Genealogy
  135. Ancestral File and Pedigree Resource File
  136. Photos, Images, Scanners, and Digital Cameras -- Dealing with images, digital cameras, screen captures, scanners, and slideshows
  137. Computer Sound Files and Digital Recorders -- Using a digital recorder, transferring old tapes to digital sound files, and editing sound files
  138. Comparing and Combining All Those Old PAF Files -- How to get the data from all those old databases into your Master File or working files, so you can throw away the old files
  139. Internet Links in Web Pages Generated From a PAF Database -- How to enter Internet links into a PAF database so the web pages formed include working Internet links
  140. Windows for Genealogists -- Tips about using the Windows operating system in genealogy
  141. Email for Genealogists -- Email programs, accounts, sending attachments, tips, and ISP's
  142. The GENViewer Program -- Helpful program to search, examine, analyze, and sort PAF or GEDCOM data in ways that PAF can't do
  143. Working With Large Databases:  The Early LDS Members Online Database -- Techniques for working with large databases, illustrated with our Early LDS Members Database on //earlylds.com
  144. U.S. Cities Galore -- Program that helps in cleaning up family history location data
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    LDS FAMILY HISTORY TRAINING
  145. What's New in Family History From the LDS Church
  146. What's Available at the Nauvoo Family History Center
  147. New FamilySearch 
  148. Was Your Ancestor a Mormon? by Diane M. Snow
  149. Family History Training for LDS Church Members and Leaders
  150. Working With Large Databases: The Early LDS Members Online Database -- Techniques for working with large databases, illustrated with our Early LDS Members Database http://earlylds.com
  151. Family Insight
  152. The Nauvoo Databank -- The contents and how to use the Nauvoo Databank text file
  153. Suggestions for Working with Gift of Family History Cards -- The Gift of Family History program
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     FAMILY HISTORY TRAINING COURSE, 9am - 6pm for 5 days at St. George Regional Family History Training Center, St. George, Utah
            See details at Cleaning Up Your Database
  154. LDS and Utah Records
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    UK AND IRISH
  155. Don's Top 30 English Genealogy Websites
  156. Finding Parish Records for the UK
  157. Jewish Genealogy in Great Britain
  158. How to Find Jamaican Films
  159. Irish Church Records
  160. Free BMD: The Free Online Civil Registration Index for England and Wales
  161. What's on GENUKI?
  162. English Wills and Probates
  163. U.S. and British Censuses
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    TEMPLE NAMES SUBMISSION USING TEMPLEREADY AND THE INTERNET IGI
           Getting your PAF database ready and submitting names to the temple using TempleReady 
  164. Class 1 -- Cleaning Up and Verifying Your Data
  165. Class 2 -- Getting Completed Ordinance Data into Your PAF Database
  166. Class 3 -- Submitting Names to the Temple Using TempleReady for Windows

    167. ADVANCED PAF (PERSONAL ANCESTRAL FILE)
  167. I Didn't Know PAF Could Do All That!

    168. INTERMEDIATE PAF (PERSONAL ANCESTRAL FILE)
            Cleaning up your PAF data, details on sources and notes,
            more on GEDCOM, reports and custom reports, changing templates, multimedia and images
  168. Class 1 -- Cleaning Up Your Data
  169. Class 2 -- Entering Notes, Sources, and Document Images
  170. Class 3 -- Reports, Custom Reports, Web Pages, and Tools
  171. Class 4 -- Importing and Exporting Data and Comparing Two Databases
  172. Class 5 -- Changing Columns, Templates, Fonts, and User Events
  173. Class 6 -- Photos, Slide Shows, and Scrapbooks in PAF

    174. BASIC PAF (PERSONAL ANCESTRAL FILE)
            Introduction to Personal Ancestral File, installing PAF 5.2,
            creating and backing up a database, data entry, sources and notes, printing reports, and GEDCOM
  174. Class 1 -- Getting Started with PAF 5.2
  175. Class 2 -- Data Entry and Sources
  176. Class 3 -- Notes, Reports, and Filter Lists
  177. Class 4 -- GEDCOM:  Transferring, Splitting, and Merging Data
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