======================================================================== LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-BULLETIN FOR NOVEMBER November 1, 2002 ======================================================================== MEETING REMINDER The Family Tree Maker group will meet next week. See details below. ANNOUNCEMENTS L-AGS and LDS to sponsor seminar in 2003 The L-AGS board gave approval at its October 29th meeting to a proposal for a joint L-AGS/LDS genealogical seminar on October 11, 2003. The seminar, primarily for beginning and intermediate genealogists, will be held at the Mocho Street LDS church. Warren White from the Church and David and Jolene Abrahams from L-AGS will head the organizing effort. L-AGS members are urged to pitch in and help with the planning and execution of the seminar. To volunteer and to offer suggestions for the event, contact David and Jolene at mailto:XXXX@attbi.com. - - - - - Time to renew! Please send in your renewal now before the holiday season chases everything else out of your mind. Dues are: Individual $18 Family $25 Benefactor $40 Patron $100 Pay your dues to Kaye or Stan Strickland at the general meeting, or to any club officer at a subgroup meeting, or send a check made out to L-AGS to: L-AGS P.O. Box 901 Livermore, CA 94550-0901 - - - - - Family History Centers need help The LDS Family History Centers (FHCs) in Livermore and Pleasanton are valuable resources for local genealogists. Source material available there, especially the film loans from Salt Lake City, can be found nowhere else in the Valley. To keep these centers open for the current schedule of hours requires more volunteers. The directors of the two FHCs, Bill and Marelene Silver in Livermore, and Myrna Hunt in Pleasanton, are turning to L-AGS for help. The Church welcomes L-AGS members as docents. Several members of L-AGS have been docents there for many years, and, when not helping "clients", have had time to do their own research. If any of you would like to volunteer to be docents, you should contact Bill and Marelene Silver, XXX-XXXX, mailto:XXXX@attbi.com, or Myrna Hunt, XXX-XXXX, mailto:dchunt1@attbi.com. This is another great opportunity for L-AGS to help members of the community with their genealogy. The location and open hours for the two FHCs are given at: http://www.l-ags.org/library.hours.html - - - - - Membership Report As of October 8, 2002 Kaye Strickland, Membership Chair Welcome to our new member: David Keller, Patterson, CA Individual 130 Memberships, 130 Individuals Family 39 Memberships, 78 Individuals Life Memberships 7 Memberships, 9 Individuals Benefactors 3 Memberships, 4 Individuals Honorary/Charter 5 Memberships, 5 Individuals Honorary 2 Memberships, 2 Individuals Totals 186 Memberships, 228 Individuals - - - - - New on our Web site A photo neatly illustrating the outcome of the Lyster research that L-AGS has conducted the last few months is posted on our Web site at: http://www.L-AGS.org Look for the link in the upper part of the home page. We have also added links to marriage and death databases for Illinois under "Useful Internet Links"/"Vital Records" of our Web site. - - - - - 1880 US census and 1881 Canadian and British censuses now online The LDS Church announced on October 16 that it has placed three major new databases online for free public access. They are the 1880 US census and the 1881 Canadian and British censuses. The LDS Family History home page is at: http://www.familysearch.org Look for the link to these censuses on the left side of the home page. Implied in the October 16 announcement, and in other recent announcements, is that the Internet will be the preferred medium for future release of LDS databases. Publication of data on CDs apparently will be de-emphasized. ======================================================================== N O V E M B E R M E E T I N G S Visitors are welcome at all of our meetings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FAMILY TREE MAKER FOCUS GROUP Dick Finn, Acting Leader Thursday, November 7, 2002 - 7:30 PM Always the first Thursday of the month 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 will view the second part of the FTM Version 10 video, kindly brought to the meeting by Barbara Barton. We will continue to discuss the features and problems of Version 10. If you have interesting charts or reports generated by FTM, please bring them to show others. 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. If you have a problem you want to bring up at the meeting, it will help if you post it in advance to: mailto:ftm.group@l-ags.org Members owning laptops are requested to bring them to the meeting. Please bring your FTM manual also. Guests are welcome at no charge. 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-XXXX or e-mail him at XXXX@pacbell.net. If you can't get Dick try George Anderson at 925-XXX-XXXX. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING Mary Dillon, Program Chairperson < mailto:program.chair@L-AGS.org > Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 7:30 PM Always the second Tuesday of the month Location: Congregation Beth Emek, 1886 College Avenue, Livermore Map to the meeting site: http://www.L-AGS.org/college.html Program: From Switzerland to Joesville Speaker: Anita Gandolfo Anita is a Livermore business woman who owns the Castle Rock Restaurant and gift shop at the corner of Portola and Livermore Avenues. Anita is the daughter of Aquilino Paul "Joe" Caratti who owned and operated the Highway Inn, Joesville, and the Rock House. Anita Gandolfo will speak about how her father emigrated from Switzerland to San Francisco just in time for the earthquake of 1906, moved to Livermore, ran a delicatessen and bakery downtown, bought Old Mexico and renamed it Club Joesville. She will tell us about the area that Joesville was in, home to Joaquin Murrieta, bootlegging, tunnels that still exist, banditry, red light district, and finally how her father became involved building the great stone structures that still exist today. For information contact Mary Dillon at mailto:program@L-AGS.org. Visitors are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRI-VALLEY TMG USERS GROUP Kay Speaks and Larry Renslow, Leaders < mailto:tvtmg.chair@L-AGS.org > Saturday, November 16, 2002 - 9-12 AM Always the third Saturday of the month Location: 7077 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 110, Pleasanton. This is across Valley Avenue from Gate 12 of the fairgrounds. URL for a map to the meeting place: < http://www.L-AGS.org/koll.center.html > Why not join us at our monthly meeting for the Tri-Valley TMG Users Group? We meet every third Saturday of the month from 9:00 AM-Noon, at 7077 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 110, Pleasanton. At the November meeting we will discuss excluding information in our TMG database. You may have data of a sensitive nature that you do not wish to display or print under certain circumstances. TMG has four features available to give you maximum control over the output from your data set. The four methods of exclusion are the Exclusion Marker, Double Exclusion Marker, Sensitivity Brackets and Hidden Text. We will also use the Match and Merge feature of TMG. You can place two people side-by-side to determine whether they are duplicates and should be merged, or you may wish to do a comparison of two peoples' lives. We will compare known people, check for duplicate people or merge two people. If time permits, we will begin discussing repositories. A repository record is used to document where you found a particular source so that it can be located easily at a later time by you or others trying to verify your work. A free demo of the TMG software can be obtained from http://www.whollygenes.com/ - - - - - Please avail yourself of the TMG e-mail forum to post questions or answers: Visitors are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENEALOGY STUDY GROUP Kay Speaks, Leader < mailto:study.chair@L-AGS.org > Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 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 > Program: "A Tale of the Mail" Speaker: David Abrahams Philatelist and Past President of L-AGS The title of my talk will be "A Tale of the Mail". I will discuss early letter writing as it applied in England, and show examples of early and interesting letters and how they were sent from one person to another. Most of the material could apply just as well in America, or any other developed country. I have been a stamp collector almost all my life, and have an extreme interest in the stamps of Great Britain, having been born there. - - - - - Please avail yourself of the Study Group e-mail forum to post questions or answers: Visitors are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP Jim Lathrop, Group Leader < mailto:computer.chair@L-AGS.org > There will be no meeting in November and December because of the holidays. ======================================================================== 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 < mailto:webmaster@l-ags.org >. - - - - - The L-AGS Web site is located at . 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