====================================================================== LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-BULLETIN FOR FEBRUARY February 1, 2001 ====================================================================== A N N O U N C E M E N T S ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting Reminder The Family Tree Maker group will meet tonight See details below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dues Are Still Acceptable Do genealogist procrastinate more than other people? There are a number L-AGS members who are certainly intending to renew who have not done so yet. To join L-AGS or to renew for 2001, give your dues to our Business Manager, Stan Strickland, or to any L-AGS officer, at the February meeting. You can also send a check payable 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 ====================================================================== F E B R U A R Y M E E T I N G S Visitors are welcome at all of our meetings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAMILY TREE MAKER FOCUS GROUP Dick Finn, Leader Date: Thursday, February 1, 2001 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 At the February meeting we will discuss online help for FTM. Please check out some of the following sites before the meeting and come prepared to share your observations about them. Family Tree Maker Installation: Installation issues Family Tree Maker Online: Web browsers, home pages, and publishing reports online Using Family Tree Maker: How-to questions Printing and Formatting Trees: Creating and printing family trees, charts, and reports and other printing issues Family Tree Maker's Search Tools: Family Archive CDs, FamilyFinder Report, and the World Family Tree Project Error Messages and Display Problems Error messages and their solutions As always, we will devote some of the meeting to trying to help each other in the use of FTM software. We are affiliated with the Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society. 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.XXX or e-mail him at rwfinn@pacbell.net If you can't get Dick try George Anderson at 925-XXX-XXXX or XXXX@home.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING John Bryan, Acting Program Chairman Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 7:30 PM Location: Congregation Beth Emek, 1886 College Avenue, Livermore Map to the meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/college.html Program: Genetic Genealogy Using DNA to Research your Ancestors Presenter: Douglas Mumma L-AGS member Doug will describe several DNA testing techniques that are now being offered commercially to research a person's paternal and maternal ancestors. This new field, sometimes called "genetic genealogy", can be used to support or enhance traditional "documentary genealogy" when it fails because various civil, church or family records have been destroyed or otherwise don't exist. Doug will present the Y-chromosome results that he obtained from his own recent "MUMMA Surname DNA Project". This study included 30 male participants who potentially shared his Mumma surname and live in America, Canada, Germany and Estonia. From these results, he was able to determine a standard MUMMA DNA "fingerprint" and show which participants share a common ancestral connection with him. In particular, he was able to determine that he and several of his German friends with the Momma surname are his cousins. Results of this research are online at: http://www.mumma.org/DNA.htm Doug was quoted in the cover story in a recent issue (29 January 2001) of U. S. News and World Report magazine (pages 34 - 41). This article by Nancy Shute is titled "Tracing Your Genetic Roots - DNA mapping is unraveling the mystery of human origins." The article may be viewed on the Internet at: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010129/migration.htm - - - - - 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, February 15, 2001 - 7:30 PM Always the Third Thursday of the Month Location: Mocho Street LDS Church, 950 Mocho Street, Livermore URL for a map to the church: http://www.l-ags.org/mocho.html Discussion Topic: Census Images Online The Study Group will meet at the Livermore LDS Church on Mocho Street in the room next to the Family History Center. (Note: Same Building, Different Room!) We will connect via the Internet to to view their online copies of original census records. Because of the availability of printed census schedules, researchers who rely on printed transcripts may miss important information and clues found only in the original version of the census records. Digital copies of these census forms are now available online. Many handouts and forms will be available. If you have specific questions, please e-mail them in advance to the Study Group leader, Kay Speaks at . Beginning and advanced researchers are encouraged to participate and share their experiences and research techniques. Sharing is also encouraged on our e-mail forum at: . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP Dick Finn, Group Leader Thursday, February 22, 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: Protecting Your Computer Speaker: Sandy Sparks Manager of CIAC for the Department of Energy The CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability) is a site maintained by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the Department of Energy. It gives official advice to the public about viruses, hoaxes, chain letters and other troublesome Internet problems. See, for example, http://ciac.llnl.gov/ and http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html Our speaker will address the growing concern that many of us have regarding viruses, hackers, and other mischief makers and how we can protect our systems from these problems. She will also speak on the value of a good backup system and how to set one up. - - - - - 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 More Genealogy Quips from Gary Bradley Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people. A pack rat is hard to live with but makes a fine ancestor. I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand. I should have asked them BEFORE they died! I think my ancestors had several "bad heir" days. Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as progress. It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening or a thief. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------