======================================================================= LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-BULLETIN FOR JANUARY January 1, 2001 ======================================================================= A N N O U N C E M E N T S ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy New Year! Notice the time stamp on this message. Assuming that @Home does not misbehave, it should be dated within the first minute of the new millennium, PST. Another Historic Document from L-AGS! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting Reminder The Family Tree Maker group will meet this week. See details below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another Meeting Reminder DON'T go to Beth Emek for the general meeting on January 9. You will find the door locked and a note on the door to go to the Pleasanton LDS church. See details below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dues Are Due Today Give your 2001 dues to Hal Norris or any other officer at the January meeting. Or, send your check made out to "L-AGS" to: L-AGS PO Box 0901 Livermore, CA 94550-0901 Dues per year are: Individual $18 Family $25 Benefactor $40 Patron $100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Book on Dakota Roots A book recently donated to the L-AGS library is "Tracing Your Dakota Roots: a Guide to Genealogical Research in the Dakotas," by Jo Ann B. Winistorfer and Cathy A. Langemo, 1999. If you would like to borrow this book before it is put into cataloging at the library, please give me a call at 925 XXX-XXXX. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Livermore Burial Records L-AGS now has burial records for Roselawn and Memory Gardens Cemeteries in Livermore online, with links marked by "New" flags on the home page at: http://www.l-ags.org The Roselawn burial records are also in print, available from our Publications Chairperson, Donna Fleckner, at 925 XXX-XXXX. The Memory Gardens records will be available in hard copy soon. ======================================================================= J A N U A R Y M E E T I N G S Visitors are welcome at all of our meetings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- L-AGS FAMILY TREE MAKER FOCUS GROUP Dick Finn, Group Leader Thursday, January 4, 2001 - 7:30 PM Place: Livermore Adult Education Facility (formerly the Sonoma Avenue School), 543 Sonoma Ave., Livermore For a map to the school, surf to: http://www.l-ags.org/sonoma.html 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. At this meeting we will view and discuss the new Family Tree Maker Version 8 as well as FTM in general. We will have at least one laptop setup to monitors/projects so all can see and better discuss FTM concerns. Bring your questions. Please share your thoughts and questions before the meeting on: mailto:ftmgroup@l-ags.org Please bring your FTM manual to the meeting. All persons interested or potentially interested in Family Tree Maker and related software are invited to attend. For information on our group please feel free to call Richard Finn at 925.XXX.XXX or mailto:computer@l-ags.org If you can't get Dick try George Anderson at 925-XXX-XXXX or mailto:webmaster@l-ags.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING John Bryan, Acting Program Chairman Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 7:30 PM Location: A one-time change! *************************************** * LDS Pleasanton Stake House * * Valley Avenue and Paseo Santa Cruz * * Pleasanton * *************************************** Map to the meeting site: We are meeting at the Pleasanton church at the invitation of David and Lola Cummings, directors of the Pleasanton Family History Center. Before and after the regular presentation we will tour the recently upgraded facilities, which include new microfilm and microfiche printers and a complete set of Family Tree Maker CD-ROMs. - - - - - Program Make Your Own Low Cost Family History Book Presenter Dick Finn Dick will share his experiences taking two large and old family scrap books and turning them into inexpensive family history books for all to share. He will cover working with other family members, working with print shops and printers, book organization, word processing, use of photographs, genealogical charts, indexing, covers, bindings, costs, and distribution. He will show examples of two "from-to" projects as well as a work in progress. - - - - - Visitors are welcome. For information contact Jon Bryan at 925 XXX-XXXX, or mailto:president@l-ags.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENEALOGY STUDY GROUP Kay Speaks, Leader Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 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 January Study Group Agenda: - Naming Patterns - Sharing results of November's meeting about "Writing Your Family Story" Please come to the meeting with examples from your own family of how siblings in order of birth were named or not named after ancestors. So much the better if you can send these examples to: before the meeting. 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. Visitors are welcome. - - - - - 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 Kay Speaks at . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP Dick Finn, Group Leader Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 7:30 PM Place: Livermore Adult Education Facility (formerly the Sonoma Avenue School), 543 Sonoma Ave., Livermore For a map to the school, surf to: http://www.l-ags.org/sonoma.html Program: Digitizing Family Pictures Presenter: Lynda Hadley Senior Photographer Sandia National Laboratories/California Lynda Hadley, senior photographer at Sandia/California, will be showing us best practice techniques for scanning old photographs and documents. As she has time she will also talk on how we might improve the quality of our digital images by use of digital imaging software. Lynda has been a professional photographer for more than 25 years. She has been using digital photography for nearly ten of those years. She has a MFA in computer Arts from the Academy of Arts College in San Francisco and a BFA in Photojournalism and Anthropology from the California University at Los Angeles. Lynda has taught classes in Digital Photography, Web Design, Studio Lighting Techniques, Digital Capture, and Multimedia Production. - - - - - For information on CIG call Dick Finn at 925-XXX-XXXX or mailto:computer@l-ags.org If you can't get Dick try George Anderson at 925-XXX-XXXX or mailto:webmaster@l-ags.org 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. The message was composed in 10 point monospaced Courier font, in a 6.125 inch column width. Any necessary indenting and centering was done with spaces, not tabs. If the text appears ragged on your screen, change to 10 point Courier font, or copy the message to a word processor and change the font there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROOTS HOOTS The Born Loser "This is the Genealogy Department of the Public Library, Mr. Thornapple. We have started to trace your family roots and have made a discovery concerning your late grandfather..." "Yes? Yes?" "You are responsible for his accrued fines of $1,112.29!" --Art Sansom from www.genealogy.about.com/hobbies/genealogy/library/humor/bl042400.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------