LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-BULLETIN FOR JULY 2006 July 1, 2006 ======================================================= Summary of Events for July 2006: - Family Tree Maker Group: - Thursday, July 6 - General Meeting: Tuesday, July 11 - Study Group: Thursday, July 20 - The Master Genealogist Group: Saturday, July 15 - L-AGS Board Meeting - Tuesday, July 25 ======================================================= Future General Meetings July 11, "Genealogy, History and Horse Medicine," Larry Mauch August 8, "What Can I Learn from DNA Testing?" Doug Mumma September 12, "Immigration," Sue Johnston October 10, "Scotch and Irish Records," Cath Madden Trimble November 14, "Chinese Genealogy," Kay Speaks ======================================================= A N N O U N C E M E N T S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KAY AND BARRY SCHRADER'S FAREWELL PARTY Ice Cream Social Sunday, July 9, 2006 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Asbury United Methodist Church 4743 East Avenue Livermore, California Come and join your friends in wishing Barry and Kay Schrader well in their move to Illinois. If you are planning to attend, please inform David or Jolene Abrahams 447-9386 by July 5th. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW RESOURCES AT THE LDS FAMILY HISTORY CENTER IN OAKLAND From Margery Bell, Assistant Director The Oakland Regional Family History Center is pleased to announce we have a new website: http://www.oaklandfhc.org Check here for schedules of classes being offered, hours, special closures, etc. Coming soon!! Thanks to the generous donation of the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group, we will be putting our catalog on line at our website. This will give you access at home to the catalogs not only of the Oakland FHC but eventually to those of our satellite centers including: Antioch, Concord, Livermore, Pleasanton, Danville, Hayward, Fremont, San Francisco, and San Francisco West. Please watch for a coming announcement of August hands- on classes in using PAF Insight. We will be restarting our regular class schedule in September with new classes in beginning genealogy and specific classes in some of the most used source material for genealogical research, basic computer programs and using some of our subscription websites. Note our July Closures - We will be closed from July 1 - 4 and we will be closing Tuesday-Thursday at 6 PM the last 2 weeks in July because Temple Pageant here on Temple Hill makes parking impossible. ======================================================= J U L Y M E E T I N G S Visitors are welcome free of charge at all of our meetings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FAMILY TREE MAKER FOCUS GROUP Leader: Dick Finn at XXXX@wecare.net Date and Time: Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 7:30 p.m. Always the first Thursday of the month. Summer location: LDS Church, 950 Mocho Street, Livermore, CA Map to the meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/Liv-FHC.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE THE CHANGE OF MEETING LOCATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We will be showing another section of the Official Family Tree Maker Training Video. We welcome your comments, suggestions, and questions. Bring your questions (on any version of FTM, any and all skill levels welcome) and let us help each other find answers. Most of our group are FTM users (from beginners to experts) who discuss problems and solutions, share successes, answer questions, and in general help each other with the Family Tree Maker genealogical software. All persons interested or potentially interested in Family Tree Maker are invited to attend. For information on our group please call Dick Finn at 925- XXX-XXXX or e-mail him at XXXX@wecare.net. Contact Dick for information about topics to be discussed. Visitors are welcome and there is no charge to attend. Bring your questions, comments, and if you have a laptop with FTM loaded (any version) and/or the FTM Handbook, you might bring them. Please avail yourself of the L-AGS FTM e-mail forum at mailto:ftm.group@L-AGS.org to post questions, answers and comments. ======================================================= MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING Barbara Huber, Program Chairperson mailto:program.chair@L-AGS.org Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 7:30 p.m. Location: Congregation Beth Emek, 3400 Nevada Court, Pleasanton Map to the meeting site: http://www.L-AGS.org/maps/Pls-BethEmek.html Topic: "Genealogy, History and Horse Medicine" Speaker Larry Mauch President of the Livermore Heritage Guild. Larry Mauch is a management consultant by profession. He has been involved with the Livermore Heritage Guild since 1985, serving as President at various times for about ten years. He has been a bottle collector since 1966. He was interviewed in 2005 by Antiques & Collecting Magazine. The interview is on the L-AGS Web site at: http://www.L-AGS.org/Larry_Mauch.pdf Visitors are welcome. ======================================================= STUDY GROUP MEETING Co-Leaders: Kay Speaks, Dick Finn, and George Anderson Date: Thursday, July 20, 2006 Always the third Thursday of the month. Time: 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Location: LDS Church, 950 Mocho Street, Livermore, CA Map to meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/Liv-FHC.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: We may change to a different meeting location with better Internet connections, if the new location is available. Stay tuned for an announcement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Program: Upload your data to RootsWeb Surname List Teacher: Mary Ann Loss We will devote the July Study Group meeting to a live Internet session in which attendees upload their entries to the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL). A number of laptop computers connected to the Internet will be available. You will be guided through the process of uploading your data to RSL, in hopes of attracting the attention of relatives who have information to share. A detailed set of instructions about how to prepare for this live Internet session will be forthcoming. Comments, questions and answers about any subject in genealogy should be posted to our e-mail forum at: mailto:study.group@L-AGS.org As usual, we will reserve time for anyone to describe a brick wall, to see if attendees have suggestions for breaking through. Please post a brief summary of the problem to the e-mail forum (address above) before the meeting. ======================================================= TRI-VALLEY TMG USERS GROUP Date: Saturday, July 15, 2006 (We meet every third Saturday of the month.) Time: 9:00 a.m. - Noon Location: 7077 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 110, Pleasanton, CA 94566 Map: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/Pls-KollCenter.html Leader: Kay Speaks, mailto:tvtmg.chair@L-AGS.org Instructors: Kay Speaks and Sue Johnston Program: See the program on our Web site at: http://www.L-AGS.org/TMG_July_2006.htm This URL is case sensitive! About our meetings: With the aid of a digital projector, Kay and Sue work as an instructional team. We discuss, demonstrate, and brainstorm best practices of the software. We use a hands-on method, so you learn TMG's features by actually entering samples of the lesson into a class TMG database. Each monthly session is like a mini three-hour TMG workshop. Guests are always welcome at our meetings. Accommodations for laptops are available. If you have a laptop, bring it with you to the meeting and a copy of the group's practice database will be provided to you. A feature of our teaching sessions is the ability to connect up to 15 laptops to the digital projector so attendees can share their ideas and projects. It also allows us to provide custom instruction to the individual user. A laptop is not a requirement as the lesson will be projected. If you can't stay for the entire 3 hours, come and leave early. TMG questions not specific to all attendees will be addressed in the later part of our meeting. Please bring samples of your problem if possible. We hope to see you at the next meeting! A free demo version of the software can be downloaded at http://www.whollygenes.com. For additional information, contact tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org. =======================================================