• Instructors are Donald R. and Diane M. Snow ( snowd@math.byu.edu and dms34@juno.com ) of Provo, Utah; St. George, Utah; and Nauvoo, Illinois.
• This page with active Internet links is posted on the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group website http://uvtagg.org under Class Outlines , Don's Listings , Nauvoo University.
• Bring your LDS Individual Ordinance Summaries?  Will scan them for you
• This class will continue the discussion of compiled sources and talk about how to incorporate the data into your PAF database.
• Spiritual thought

CLEANING UP NAMES IN YOUR DATABASE

• Names should be entered so there are slashes // around the surname only
• Reason is that the computer is programmed to use the name inside the slashes for alphabetizing, searching, checking, etc.
• Only way to find and correct these is by looking at the Individual List and find and correct them
• Examples

ILLUSTRATIONS OF USING DATA IN NOTES AND SOURCES

• Some databases are programmed to bring in the data and add it to notes or sources automatically, e.g. a GEDCOM from the US 1880 Census on http://www.familysearch.org
• For data from othr websites you can copy and paste the text into notes and/or sources in PAF
• For images you need an image file -- some image formats are jpg, tif, png, and bmp
• Examples of data from  HeritageQuest Online -- website accessible from home with a local public library card, e.g. a Nauvoo Public Library card validated at the Quincy Public Library -- has images of all US Censuses (and indexes of most of them), many genealogy books, Revolutionary War Records and Pensions, and more

FASTSTONE CAPTURE

• Screen capture program with many helpful features -- Version 5.3 is the last freeware version; later versions are shareware
• Download from http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/mmedia/FastStoneCapture.html 
• Using FastStone Capture
  • Settings
  • Can use it to capture entire window, active window, rectangular region, or free-hand region
  • Will even do scrolling screens where you have to scroll down to see the entire page -- Most screen capture programs won't do this.
  • Can set it to save in the type of image you want, e.g. save as a jpg, tif, pdf, or gif
  • Can set it to save image to clipboard, in a particular folder, or to image editor
  • Can set it to name the screenshots automatically in sequence and with current date in file name or to ask you to name each screenshot before saving it  
  • Easy to use FastStone Capture to make screenshots for genealogy data, or for slideshows for classes, lectures, family history, etc.
• Examples

HANDS-ON EXERCISES

• Find and incorporate data like this into your updated PAF databases - both some text and a few images.

1. Update your database using the text of the things that have been found.
2. Enter several images of data into notes and sources in your PAF database.