======================================================================= LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-BULLETIN FOR APRIL 2000 April 1, 2000 ======================================================================= A N N O U N C E M E N T S Roots Tracer Vicki Renz and Debbie Pizzato would like articles from members for the next issue of the Roots Tracer, which will be distributed at our May general meeting. Please submit your articles by April 25. You can send them to XXXX@home.com or XXXX@aol.com or rootstracer@l-ags.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual CGS Fair at the Pleasanton Fairgrounds Friday and Saturday, April 28-29 L-AGS will have a booth at the Annual CGS Fair. We will borrow our CD-ROM collection and a computer from the Pleasanton Library for the event, so fairgoers can try their own searches. You can see complete information at: . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard information about our library and about the two local LDS Family History Centers, plus information on the other items in this bulletin, can always be found via the link "Coming Events" on our Web site at . ======================================================================= C O M I N G E V E N T S Visitors are welcome at all of our meetings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- L-AGS FAMILY TREE MAKER FOCUS GROUP Dick Finn, Group Leader Date: Thursday, April 6, 2000 at 7:30 PM Place: Livermore Adult Education Facility (formerly the Sonoma Avenue School), 543 Sonoma Ave., Livermore For a map to the school, dial up: http://www.l-ags.org/sonoma.html Since the regular L-AGS CIG meeting this month will feature a speaker from FTM, we will spend some of the time at our FTM meeting discussing questions to be brought up to the CIG speaker. Of course, we always have time for problem-solving and sharing. We have given up promising to have a projecting monitor. Nothing seems to work. Even the Tri-Valley Macintosh Users Group, which meets in the same room as we do, and has a number of computer pros in attendance, had to give up last month trying to make the projector work! Please bring your FTM manual to the meeting. We are primarily a group of Family Tree Maker users (from beginners to experts) who discuss/share problems and successes and in general help each other in the use of FTM software. All persons interested or potentially interested in Family Tree Maker and related software are invited to attend. Guests are welcome at no charge. For information on our group please feel free to call Richard Finn at 925.XXX-XXXX or e-mail him at XXXX@pacbell.net If you can't get Dick try George Anderson at 925-XXX- XXXX or XXXX@home.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING Jon Bryan, Program Chairman Tuesday, April 11, 2000 - 7:30 PM Location: Congregation Beth Emek, 1886 College Avenue, Livermore Map to the meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/college.html Program: "In Their Own Words" Oral History from Morgan Territory Road Residents Presenter: Ann Homan Livermore author and L-AGS member Anne writes: "My talk, 'In Their Own Words,' will present an overview of my book using predominantly the oral and written words of people who formed the community along Morgan Territory Road. I thought this might be an interesting follow-up to Traci Parent's earlier presentation about oral history to our organization. Besides collecting information from many other sources, I conducted or took part in more than 60 interviews during my research. The talk will be illustrated with slides." "I grew up in Baltimore, MD. I attended Gettysburg College in Gettysburg PA (B. A.) and Holy Names College in Oakland (M. A.). For 21 years I taught in the Livermore High School English Department. I retired in 1996. Since about 1980, I have been working on my family genealogy. Our family moved to Livermore in 1970, up to Morgan Territory Road in 1980. My husband worked as a physicist at the Lab until his retirement. We have three children and two grandchildren. I started research for this book on Morgan Territory Road in the summer of 1995." - - - - - Visitors are welcome at all L-AGS meetings. For information, contact Jon Bryan at 925 XXX-XXXX or XXXX@aol.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENEALOGY STUDY GROUP Vicki Renz, Leader Thursday, April 20, 2000 - 7:30 PM Location: Mocho Street LDS Church, 950 Mocho Street, Livermore URL for a map to the church: http://www.l-ags.org/mocho.html The topic for this month will be announced later. Our discussions are not limited to the given topic, so if you have a problem or a solution, come to the meeting and tell us about it. Better yet, use the new e-mail list to post the subject and give the group a chance to think about it in advance. That will make the discussion more focused and productive. - - - - - Members needing help with a genealogy problem may call one of the club officers, who will attempt to find someone who can help. For information contact Vicki Renz at 925 XXX-XXXX or XXXX@home.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP Dick Finn, Group Leader Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 - 7:30 PM Location: Livermore Adult Education (formerly the Sonoma Avenue School), 543 Sonoma Ave., Livermore URL for a map to the School: http://www.l-ags.org/sonoma.html Program: Family Tree Maker presented by A representative of Genealogy.com, the producers of FTM Continuing with our series of presentations on different choices among genealogical software, we will hear this month about the latest version of Family Tree Maker. As of April 1, the company had not named the speaker. Further details will be sent out by e-mail as they become available. - - - - - Non-members are welcome to attend at no cost. For information on CIG call Dick Finn at 925-XXX-XXXX or e-mail him at XXXX@pacbell.net If you can't get Dick try George Anderson at 925-XXX- XXXX or XXXX@home.com Members needing help with a computer problem may call one of the mentors listed in the Members' Handbook. ======================================================================= The Boilerplate We realize that not all L-AGS members have e-mail. If you have friends in L-AGS who do not have e-mail, please keep them informed about news in these e-mail bulletins. - - - - - To discontinue receiving these mailings from L-AGS please call me at 925 XXX-XXXX or e-mail me at XXXX@home.com. - - - - - The L-AGS Web site is located at . If you ever have trouble accessing the L-AGS Web site, or find any faulty links on it, please let me know immediately. - - - - - Readability To make sure this message is readable by the maximum number of different computer systems, it is transmitted in plain text, without embedded formatting. 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