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SUMMER 2012
COMING UP
- Wed 2012-06-06, 1-2:30 PM -- FAMILYSEARCH
FAMILY TREE: THE FUTURE OF NEW FAMILYSEARCH -- at Family
History Update Class Provo
- Sat 2012-06-09, 9 am - noon -- YOUR
PERSONAL GENEALOGY LIBRARY: FAMILY HISTORY BOOKS ONLINE --
at UVTAGG Meeting, 4050 North
Timpview Dr., Provo, Utah
- Sat 2012-06-16, 10 am - noon -- FINDING
DESCENDANTS OF YOUR ANCESTORS -- at Riverton
FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah
- Wed 2012-06-20, 1-2:30 PM -- FAMILY
HISTORY BOOKS ONLINE -- at Family History Update Class
Provo
- Thu 2012-08-02, 11 am - noon -- FAMILY
HISTORY BOOKS ONLINE -- at BYU
2012 Conference on Family History and Genealogy, 31 Jul -
3 Aug 2012, Provo, Utah
- Fri 2012-08-03, 11 am - noon -- FREEWARE
AND SHAREWARE FOR FAMILY HISTORY -- at BYU
2012 Conference on Family History and Genealogy, 31 Jul -
3 Aug 2012, Provo, Utah
- 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
PAST
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FAMILY HISTORY UPDATE SERIES - Winter and Spring
2012
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 http://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.
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PAGES REFERENCED IN NOTES
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- 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)
- Some
Things I Learned at RootsTech 2012, 2-4 Feb 2012,
Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Sat 2011-11-19, 10 am -- Newspapers
in Family History -- at Southern
Utah Family History and Genealogy Group meeting (SUFHGG),
St. George, Utah
- 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
- Sat 2011-10-08, 9 am -- LDS
Data and the Nauvoo Databank -- at UVTAGG
Meeting, 4050 North Timpview Dr. (650 East), Provo, Utah
- Sun 2011-08-21, 5:30 PM -- The
Nauvoo Databank -- at Edgemont
North Stake FHC Staff Meeting, 4300 North Canyon Road,
Provo, Utah
- Sat 2011-07-16, 10 am -- Great
Grandpa Was a Mormon: LDS and Utah Records -- at Riverton
FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah
- 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
- Sat 2011-06-18, 10 am -- The
Lay of the Land: Online Maps for Family History -- at Riverton
FamilySearch Library, Riverton, Utah
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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FAMILY HISTORY UPDATE
SERIES - Winter and Spring 2011
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 [ http://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.
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FAMILY HISTORY UPDATE SERIES - NAUVOO
UNIVERSITY and
Nauvoo University (Old Website)
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FAMILY HISTORY UPDATE SERIES - ST.
GEORGE REGIONAL FAMILY HISTORY TRAINING CENTER -- http://www.familyhistorycenter.org/
COMPUTERS AND INTERNET GENEALOGY
(Also see above)
- Links to
Large LDS Multi-Stake Family History Centers and here
also
- Finding
Grandma Through the London Family History Centre
- Finding
GEDCOM's Containing Your Ancestors
- Tracing
Your US Immigrant Relative
- Using
City and Other Directories in Family History
- FamilySearch
and Other Helps -- Glossary, Research Outlines, Helps,
and Guidance, Helps for the FHLC, and other FH help websites
- Searching
the IGI and Using Batch Numbers
- What's
on FamilySearch.org
- FamilySearch.org
- The
Family History Library Catalogue
- The
Ancestry Website in Family History Centres
- Introduction
to Internet Genealogy
- Annotated
List of Helpful Family History Web Sites
- RootsWeb
and USGenWeb
- GenSmarts
- Cleaning
Up Your Database
- Backing
Up Your Data
- Fun
With Your Genealogy
- Ancestral
File and Pedigree Resource File
- Photos,
Images, Scanners, and Digital Cameras -- Dealing with
images, digital cameras, screen captures, scanners, and
slideshows
- Computer
Sound Files and Digital Recorders -- Using a digital
recorder, transferring old tapes to digital sound files, and
editing sound files
- 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
- 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
- Windows
for Genealogists -- Tips about using the Windows
operating system in genealogy
- Email
for Genealogists -- Email programs, accounts, sending
attachments, tips, and ISP's
- The
GENViewer Program -- Helpful program to search, examine,
analyze, and sort PAF or GEDCOM data in ways that PAF can't do
- Working
With Large Databases: The Early LDS Members Online
Database -- Techniques for working with large databases,
illustrated with our Early LDS Members Database on http://earlylds.com
- U.S.
Cities Galore -- Program that helps in cleaning up
family history location data
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LDS FAMILY HISTORY TRAINING
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5-Day Family History Training
Course, 9am - 6pm for 5 days at St. George Regional Family
History Training Center, St. George, Utah
See details at http://www.familyhistorycenter.org
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UK AND IRISH
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NAUVOO UNIVERSITY FAMILY HISTORY
CLASS -
NAUVOO
UNIVERSITY and
Nauvoo University (Old Website)
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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
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ADVANCED PAF (PERSONAL ANCESTRAL FILE)
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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
- Class
1 -- Cleaning Up Your Data
- Class
2 -- Entering Notes, Sources, and Document Images
- Class
3 -- Reports, Custom Reports, Web Pages, and Tools
- Class
4 -- Importing and Exporting Data and Comparing Two
Databases
- Class
5 -- Changing Columns, Templates, Fonts, and User Events
- Class
6 -- Photos, Slide Shows, and Scrapbooks in PAF
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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
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